Naturally you know drag and drop is supported in the designers, bringing in controls, and moving controls around the page. But did you know drag and drop also works for text? And [CTRL] drag = copy? Nice trick. Spend a minute watching this for the whole scoop. This work is licensed under a Creative…
Sometimes when you’re looking for something in code, it would be nice for the results to persist. Instead of routing the results to the standard find box, this tip / trick shows you how to add a bookmark to all of the result findings. Then you’re free to use the keyboard shortcuts around bookmarking to…
If you’re crazy about dropping bookmarks in your project, then you’ll love this ability to manage them. There’s a Bookmark Tool Window (or Panel) that allows you to organize and arrange your bookmarks. You can create one or many folders with name, and then jump between bookmarks just in that folder. Once you’ve organized your…
Have you seen screen casts, or demos, or other folks using Visual Studio with a funky color scheme? Back backgrounds? Green backgrounds? Pink Backgrounds? Hey, whatever tickels your fancy, Visual Studio will come through for you. Kidding aside, there are some pretty cool themes with dark background colors. Here is one and here is another one….
The results of a Find Symbol or a Quick Find Symbol will appear in the Find Symbol results. Similar to the Find Results window (when searching for text), you can press Ctrl+Alt+F12 to bring up the Find Symbols Results window (View.FindSymbolResults) press F8 (Edit.GoToNextLocation) to navigate to the next result, and Shift+F8 (Edit.GoToPreviousLocation) to navigate…
The indicator margin has all these yellow and green ticks on it. What are they? This video shows you what they are, why they’re there, and how to show/hide them. Tools|Options >> Text Edit / General >> Track Changes = Toggle the visible track changes
