Visual Studio Tricks

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Visual Studio Support Multiple Monitors? This video shows you how. Peel out windows, like the Solution Explorer, dock them to you second monitor, and the best part is, the window position persists across VS2010 restarts. Very Nice! Check out the video – it’s only 3 Minutes.

If you’re a developer like me, you live 90% of your work life at your computer, inside Visual Studio. These tips and tricks will help you inside the editor. New VS2010 Features like Call Hierarchy, find all references, go to definition, the new Code Definition Window, Navigating Highlighted words...