# codecadwallader/codemaid

CodeMaid is an open source Visual Studio extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.

Repository: https://github.com/codecadwallader/codemaid
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/codemaid
Homepage: http://www.codemaid.net
Language: C#
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: c-sharp, clean-code, vsix, visual-studio, dotnet
Last push: 2025-10-13T14:27:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 44/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 46, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4428, "days_push": 324, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1984, forks 370 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:02.052321+00:00)

## What it is
CodeMaid is an open source Visual Studio extension that cleans up, formats, and reorganizes code across many languages including C#, C++, F#, VB, JavaScript, and TypeScript. It provides automatic cleanup on save, code digging tree navigation, member reorganizing, and comment formatting.

## Use cases
- clean up whitespace and remove unused using statements in C# files
- automatically format code on save in Visual Studio
- reorganize class members to follow StyleCop conventions
- navigate and visualize C# file structure with a tree view
- format XML comments to wrap at a specified column
- run code cleanup across an entire solution

## When to choose
- you use Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 and want automated code cleanup
- you want StyleCop-style member reorganization with region generation
- you need multi-language cleanup including C#, C++, XAML, and TypeScript

## When to avoid
- you use VS Code, Rider, or another IDE outside Visual Studio
- you need only a standalone formatter or CLI tool
- you use Visual Studio 2005-2017 without accepting older release versions

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: formatter, linter, developer-tools, editor
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors, web-development
- platform: windows, editor-plugin
- tags: visual-studio, vsix, code-cleanup, code-reorganization, c-sharp, clean-code

## Member repositories
- codecadwallader/codemaid (main) score 44

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.052321+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:19.111334+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/codecadwallader/codemaid (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.052321+00:00, sha b7ce85575c11)
  - homepage: http://www.codemaid.net (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:06.405595+00:00, sha 4b01237ed9bf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.