For the record, 10 reviewers have awarded it an average rating of 3.6, on a 0-5 scale. "Clippy is the greatest assistant of ALL TIME, of ALL TIME!" read one comment on the project's review page. However, some developers seemed to have forgotten all that. As Wikipedia notes: "The program was widely reviled among users as intrusive and annoying." Though some noted some problems with the tool, others were quite enthusiastic, considering the spotty reception to the original Clippy. You can move it around, close it and retrieve it back from the menu Tools -> Clippy VS."įratini thanked the developers of Clippy.JS ("Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia.") for the original assets of the project.įratini noted that his extension was still a work in progress and asked for input from developers, who complied in a series of observations and comments. It adds our hero inside the IDE and it will react to some of your actions. The ClippyVS extension, available in the Visual Studio Marketplace, is described as "an extension for Visual Studio that resuscitates Clippy in (almost) all his glory. "Love Clippy or hate him, you have to admit Eros' project is kind of cool." "Eros Fratini recently released an open source v0.1 extension that brings Clippy to Visual Studio," Duncan said in his Coding4Fun blog this week. Microsoft's Greg Duncan noted the return of Clippy, the infamous cartoon paperclip that served as an assistant for users of the Office productivity software suite many years ago.
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