Here are my talking points for the Visual Studio Launch event today. I’m covering the “What’s New” talk. When I put this together, I didn’t want to just show a bunch of fancy new features that you may use someday. I really wanted to show Studio features that will make you more productive. Period. You should be able to leave the talk (or read this post) and start saving time instantly with your time in Visual Studio.
If you’re like me, you spend most of your time in Studio so every second counts. Each little tip/trick that you add to your bag of tricks is helpful, so in addition to just talking about some new keys/points/features of Studio 2010, I’ll also be throwing in several mini-production tips around keyboard shortcuts, debugging, and navigation.
As you know, the time on stage is limited and the key to being a good speaker is being able to roll with what’s happening with the audience. Agile Speaking :) So I may or may not be able to go over all of these, and there may be additional topics that come up that aren’t listed, but ... it’s my goal to stick as close as possible to this outline.
- Multiple Monitor Support
- Incremental Search, CTRL+i
- Box Select, Multi Line Select, ALT+MouseSelect
- Smart Tag from Keyboard, CTRL+.
- New VS2010 Navigation, CTRL+,
- Reference Highlights (Visual only)
- Temporary Projects (Tools|Options|Projects|Save New)
- Parallel Coding (Examples for .For and .ForEach)
- Debugging (Conditional, Trace Points)
- Intellitrace (Go back in time with the debugger)
- Generate Usage (Class, Methods, Props, Fields, Types)
- Find Usages, References, (F8)
- Call Hierarchy
- Sequence Diagrams
- Assembly Dependency Diagram
- Layer validation Diagram (Compiler v. Business Layers)
Based on time, I probably won’t get to do the last of these tips tricks, but I have them in my bag of tricks as filers. The idea here is to always make sure I have enough content prepared, but make sure the core concepts above are covered. So these additional tip/tricks may or may not make it into the 60 minutes.
- Custom Search Results (Registry Hack, HKCU/Soft/MS/VS/10/Find )
- Find Sibling Bracket/Parenthesis, CTRL+}
- Navigation Forward and backward, CTRL+-
- Clipboard Ring, CTRL+SHIFT+V
- Find Box in Command Mode
- Right Click or Context Menu Changes
- Zoom The Editor from the CTRL+SHIFT+< and CTRL+SHIFT+>
- Edit SLN and PROJ files inside Studio
4 comment(s)
Scott, you are truly the feature king of all things Visual Studio! My hat is off to you. (though I don't think I've ever seen you take your hat off)
Regarding this tip - •Custom Search Results (Registry Hack, HKCU/Soft/MS/VS/10/Find ) -- Do you have a pointer to the details on how to configure this such as a list of the formatting directives?
Hi Keith,
Here is a complete list (as complete as I know)
Files
$p path
$f filename
$v drive/unc share
$d dir
$n name
$e .ext
Location
$l line
$c col
$x end col if on first line, else end of first line
$L span end line
$C span end col
Text
$0 matched text
$t text of first line
$s summary of hit
$T text of spanned lines
Char
\n newline
\s space
\t tab
\\ slash
\$ $
Thanks. BTW the other important piece is that this format string goes in a REG_SZ value called "Find Result Format" under HKCU/Soft/MS/VS/10/Find.