Visual Studio Tricks

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I hope this tip's title makes sense. The idea is that you select some text and then hit escape. Where do you want the cursor to go? If you want it to stay where it is, that's the default behavior. But if you want it to jump to the beginning of the selection (i.e. the selection anchor), you need to go...

It's time for an old favorite from the Visual Studio 2005 days... Remember How to search using the Ctrl+D Window from one of the earlier tips? Now let's have a little more fun... Press Ctrl+D to go to the Find Combo Box and then... Goto a line – type the line number and press Ctrl+G (i like showing...