Visual Studio Tricks

Just select some text (or just have the cursor on the word you wish to search for) and press [CTRL]+[F3] . [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[F3] will do a reverse search to find previous. Note that a [CTRL]+[F3] search uses the following options: Is case sensitive Searches hidden text Allows for partial matching Does...

After you search and find an item, [F3] will search and find the same item again. [SHIFT]-[F3] will find the same item, but will look behind your current cursor position. Obviously, you can also press the Find Next button on the Find and Replace window, if it's open. One thing to note about [F3] , is...

When browsing the “Visual Studio” search on twitter, I saw a post from @GamersOnlyOlder asking about debugging asp.net in a browser other than Internet Explorer. Are you forced to use Internet Explorer when debugging ASP.net applications? Absolutely not. This quick tip/trick shows how to...

We’ve had block select in Visual Studio for a long time. The idea of block select is simple, sometimes you want to select columns and rows (in a block) instead of the normal line by line select you get with normal drag-n-drop selection, or [SHIFT]+[ARROW] selection. We talked about this for older...

When doing a quick find, you can select the scope of your search, including the current code block, current document, all open documents, current project, and entire solution. There is even a way to scope your search, to only look in the current code block. This might be nice for finding local variables, or when you inherit someone else's project that like to write those famous 1500 line long methods :)

Recently I have been getting a lot of positive feedback for my work around the Visual Studio tricks. I try to make the video tricks under 90 seconds, and while the original Video Tips were a replay on Sara Ford’s original tips, I’m ramping up to get the tips out starting for the new Visual...

In Visual Studio 2008, you could turn on the keyboard bindings to be displayed with the Tooltips. For example, if you hover over the save icon, you would also see CTRL+S. This was tip #64 for 2008, but seems to be missing from 2010. And I looked in every place I could, including the registry. Now it...

From now on, all tricks will be recorded using Visual Studio 2010, starting with the Beta2 Ultimate product. You'll also notice that these are playing with YouTube now, since the announcement from Microsoft that Silverlight Live Hosting services will be going away. Anyway --- this is a simple tip to...

As you know from reading the original tips/tricks series, my goal when starting to record the series was to put video to Sara Fords original Tips and Tricks. She has about 380 at last count. I've been wondering what to do with the tips/tricks after I'm done recording her series, and I've decided to just continue the numbering, but skip a head a little bit. This gives me a little wiggle room if Sara is going to ever add any more tips, as well as a fresh start to the tips/tricks I'm going to record on my own.

So tip #500 is just a welcome to ... well ... more tips.

Already I've found some things in Visual Studio 2010 that are new ... and I can't wait to show them off.

In fact, stand by for just a few minutes, one of the first tips is a replay on Block Select, with the new features added in 2010.

Ever try to search for something you know exists, BUT … the Quick Find just can’t find it? Is it possible that the text you’re looking for is in a hidden region? This video shows you how toe search hidden text in collapsed regions.