@ScottCate

Last year, several community leaders held a Windows Phone Unleashed event. This year we hosted it again with @DanWahlin taking the presentation lead (and speaker manager role) while I stayed behind and ran logistics. Last year we focused on Applications, where this event focused on XNA Games. we had a great turn out, and we snapped a few pictures of the applications that were built. We also had a WinPhone Celeb: Jonathan Isabelle who has written “Jack of all Tools” for Windows Phone, which now has (to date) 140k downloads . We sat down with Jonathan for a few minutes and recorded a small social...

YouTube has a feature that for really old (prior to 2009 accounts) you can unlink, and then later re-link the YouTube account to a Google Account. After 2009, the actually YouTube account was a Google Account, so there is no linking / unlinking involved. So I’m stuck in this loop … and I have a question into Google help (forums). But over there, you can’t include pictures, so with some luck, someone will stumble upon these and find them helpful. Step 1. After clicking a link in the reset pwd for my original old school YouTube account) Step 2. Step 3. (Rinse and Repeat Steps 1-3, like nothing ever...

At the very top of the editor and just below the File Tab Channel, you'll find the Navigation Bar. The left combo box lists objects and the right lists the select objects members. This is very useful when you need to jump to various functions throughout a large solution, or you want to see what functions an object has (or is missing). To jump to the navigation bar via the keyboard, press Ctrl+F2. This is bound to the command Window.MoveToNavigationBar, so your keyboard shortcut mileage may vary. To toggle between the Objects list and the Members list, press Tab or Shift+Tab. Additionally, you can...

A previous tip talked about what that automatic delimiter highlighting option does. A follow-up tip is how to change the Brace Matching color. Go to Tools - Options - Fonts and Colors, select Brace Matching (Rectangle), and set to the desired color....

Just in case you ever need to do this... Go to Tools - Options - Text Editor - All Languages - General and uncheck Auto List Members and Parameter Information. If you just want to disable intellisense by default for a particular language, go to the Text Editor - <language> - General option page and set the behavior there. Note that the intellisense commands themselves are not disabled, meaning you can still invoke intellisense via the keyboard shortcut or a toolbar button....

On the Tools – Options – Text Editor – File Extension page, you can map a file extension to one of the included editors. And after mapping the .sara extension to a C# editor, we now get syntax highlight... There is also an option to map files without extensions to a specific editor....

Honestly, I had to ask around what this one did. I couldn't remember to save my life. Automatic Delimiter Highlighting Whenever you have code construct pairs (that's what the documentation calls them), when you finish typing either the start or end pair, both pairs of words will become bold. To turn off this feature, go to Tools - Options - Text Editor - General Customizing the Automatic Delimiter Highlighting You can customize the color for the bolding by going to Tools - Options - Fonts and Colors and selecting Brace Matching (Highlight). then volia... (i knew that french degree would pay off...

Hey, you know you went back for a third helping at thanksgiving (unless you are my uncle jimmy, who gets 4ths and 5ths on their first pass). So what could follow a Tip of the Day Browser ? How's about a Tip of the Day Windows Sidebar Gadget ! Special thanks to Rob Caron for making this happen. I didn't write the gadget... i just supplied the content =P Hope you all enjoyed your extra servings Turkey Day specials (a week late, but we are all still eating left-overs.) Docked State Full Tip Flyout Undocked (shows last 5 tips)...

So what Turkey Day was last week? No reason why we can't have a second helping of tip of the day... but as an add-in! Beth Massi, our VB community expert, wrote a Tip of the Day Browser . But even better, she's got a Let's Build an Add-In walkthrough, which she's demo'ed at the DevTeach conference. Pretty cool. I know i'm very happy to have an easy way to browse all of my tips. Thanks Beth!!...

In a previous tip, we learned more than we ever wanted to know about go-back markers . Insertion points are slightly different. They are similar to the go-back markers, but it is anywhere you click the mouse or jump the cursor to. The go-back marker 10 line rule doesn't apply. To give it a try, just click somewhere, then click somewhere else (or do a find or a goto if you're using the keyboard), then press undo. You'll move back to that previous location. The option can be found at Tools - Options - Text Editor - General...