Visual Studio Tip / Trick #502 English Transcription:

Welcome to visual studio tricks number 502; this is more of a request than a trick for visual studio 2010 beta 2. In 2008 you could change the mouse tool tips so that it showed the keyboard shortcuts and you could do that by just going to a regular menu and customizing it. You can do that in a number of different ways but here we'll do that with a tool's customize and then inside the dialogue there is a show shortcut keys and the screen tips and when you close that than you'll see the tool tips popup with the keyboard that is bound to it. Now if we switch over to 2010 and try to do the same thing you'll notice that, the dialogue that comes up is kind of missing those things down at the bottom. So getting a little more geeky what I did was try to figure out how that tip was recorded, first I tried to do a sample macro to see if I could find the keyboard binding but in the macro editor the only thing that shows up is this...umm...actually that’s not the right one, anyway it didn't actually show me anything. So then I thought well may be it has to be stored in the register and sure enough it is. So using the sys internals RegMon I found it so capture and now if we go back to studio 2008 tools customize, turn that tip off than go back to RegMon we'll see that infect it is stored in show tool tips so that's ok great, let’s see if it works in 2010 so when I actually went to my register version 9 which is 2008 found the show tool tips option and then put that same thing in for 2010 so then we go back to 2010 hoping that it works and infect it still does not work. So this video is a request to the visual studio team to get that turned back on please, it's very helpful for finding the keyboard bindings that are bound to the shortcuts throughout visual studio, thank you.