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Another search tip/trick or command is Symbol Search. This is much different than a string search. Watch this short video to learn about the built in Symbol Search in Visual Studio

Did you know Visual Studio has a Command mode? This isn't cmd.exe - but it's virutally the same concept, inside of visual studio. This command window will let you type commands for virtually any command in Visual Studio. This video will show you how to search from the Command Line.

Ever dismiss a dialog, and then want to get it back again? Far too often, we uncheck the "Show this message again" checkbox not knowing how to get the message back. For Find and Replace, you can specify whether to hide or show these message boxes at Tools - Options - Environment - Find and Replace, options Display informational messages and Display warning messages.

I’ve recently been considering GoDaddy.com as a DNS provider. I have 150+ domains registered at GoDaddy.com, and they offer a nice software panel for DNS entries. I’ve been using DNSMadeEasy for a very long time, on the recommendation of Tim Heuer , way back in the day. I didn’t use GoDaddy from the start, because I wanted to separate my domain registrar from the DNS provider. But I’ve been using, and happy with everything else GoDaddy for a number of years, and I’ve never had any GoDaddy or DNS issues. I pay about $150-$200 a year to DnsMadeEasy.com for all the DNS...

Global search/replace can be tricky. Often times you’ll end up replacing something that you didn’t realize was going to be replaced. Having an undo feature is vey helpful. This video shows you the ins and outs, of Find/Replace in all files.

VSLive is coming the first week of August, 2010 , and I’ll be speaking at the event, talking about Visual studio. Use and abuse it to the best of your ability. My talks over the last few years have been around productivity, and this one follows suit. Plain and simple: Use Visual Studio better. That’s my goal for the talk. Those that know me, know I’m pretty connected, right? I have a lot of friends that both work for Microsoft and that hate everything about Microsoft, so I get information from both sides. I have NDA’s signed with lots of companies, and I know lots of stuff I can’t talk about. But...

InVisual Studio past, creating a new project or solution was harder than it is today with 2010. The reasons are numerous, but the biggest time saver is New Project Type filtering. Need a console app? Just start typing “consol” and the list of all possible project types on your system are displayed. You can also download new Microsoft or Community project types. This is great, great, great news. Visual Studio is getting to the point where it’s no longer just giving you options for what was installed from the DVD, and big installation add-ons. Now you’re able to quickly jump...

Do you ever write quick and dirty “do you think this will work?” code? I do. You have an idea – open up a quick console app, write some code, and then desert it never to be seen again. I do that a couple of times a week, and my hard drive ends up littered with ConsoleApplication32.csproj or DeleteMe19.csproj, projects. This video will show you how to work with Temporary projects – that don’t litter your hard drive. it’s less than 4 minute.

In the real world, or Visual Studio solutions are big. Multi Projects. Lots of Code. Lots of Files, Classes, etc. This new #VS2010 feature may be the most friendly new feature, and the largest time saving feature you learn. Better, Faster Navigation. Have something in your head you want to get? A File? A Method? Some Class somewhere? This Navigation video tells all. Check it out!

Outlining is that little [PLUS] or [MINUS] sign in the left gutter of Visual studio. You see these around the manual regions that you create – and aroudn natural code blocks like classes, methods, etc. New in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to create Ad-hoc regions, without the #region command. It’s rather nice, because it doesn’t change the source code for others, it’s your own private little “hide this code” trick :). This short4 minute video gives you a great introduction.