Visual Studio Tricks


Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.


#1 Incremental Search [CTRL]+[I]

Incremental search can also be thought of as live search. The cursor highlights the first finding as you're typing the search term.

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#1 Incremental Search [CTRL]+[I]

Runtime: 60 Seconds - Resolution: 900X580 - File Size: 1Meg

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Snippets / Notes:

[CTRL]+[I] = Incremental Search

[CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[I] (Back Search)

[F3] – Find Next

[SHIFT]+[F3] – Find Previous

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14 comment(s) so far

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    The video doesn't play on Mac in Safari 2 OR Firefox 3. Can you let me know when it's fixed so I can have a look?

  2. admin avatar

    Thanks Russ for the heads up - the popup does die in those browsers. I'll keep you updated when we get it fixed. Thanks for taking a look.

  3. admin avatar

    Russ - I added a direct link download in the mean time - thanks again for the comments.

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    FWIW The video plays fine in FF 3.0.5.

    In other strangeness... The tab order on this comments page seems a little strange.... cannot tab to comments box

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    For now, (it's not perfect) but I have added an AutoPlay=true to the player, so the content plays in all the browsers I tested.

    Still broken, if you click anywhere (even the scrub or pause buttons), in some browsers, the player closes. Let's call it a work in progress!

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