Archives for June 2010

Do you ever write quick and dirty “do you think this will work?” code? I do. You have an idea – open up a quick console app, write some code, and then desert it never to be seen again. I do that a couple of times a week, and my hard drive ends up littered with ConsoleApplication32.csproj or DeleteMe19.csproj, projects. This video will show you how to work with Temporary projects – that don’t litter your hard drive. it’s less than 4 minute.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-tempprojects

In Visual Studio past, creating a new project or solution was harder than it is today with 2010. The reasons are numerous, but the biggest time saver is New Project Type filtering. Need a console app? Just start typing “cons” and the list of all possible project types on your system are displayed. You can also download new Microsoft or Community project types. This is great, great, great news. Visual Studio is getting to the point where it’s no longer just giving you options for what was installed from the DVD, and big installation add-ons. Now you’re able to quickly jump online, grab a new project type (maybe for a new technology) and start using it in seconds.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-newprojects

#VS2010 has several enhancements in and around the Intellisense features. This short 3 minute video will walk you through using them, and specifically talking about camelCase filtering, intellisense with” “Suggest” vs. “Force” mode, and using undeclared types.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-intellisense

#VS2010 has a bunch of new features around how to start, what do do with startup, and how to quickly launch the projects you usually are working on. Pinning, Deleting, Unpinning, and if you’re using Windows 7 – there is task bar pinning.

This short video will go over all of them.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-startup

If you’re a developer like me, you live 90% of your work life at your computer, inside Visual Studio. These tips and tricks will help you inside the editor. New VS2010 Features like Call Hierarchy, find all references, go to definition, the new Code Definition Window, Navigating Highlighted words and references, Multi-Line Edit, and Zoom. All these tricks are also explained with their keyboard shorts.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-editortricks