Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Layouts

On the Tools – Options – Text Editor – File Extension page, you can map a file extension to one of the included editors.  And after mapping the .sara extension to a C# editor, we now get syntax highlight… There is also an option to map files without extensions to a specific editor.

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….

Middle Button support in Visual Studio. What does it so? Watch this …   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

In a previous tip, we learned more than we ever wanted to know about go-back markers.  Insertion points are slightly different.  They are similar to the go-back markers, but it is anywhere you click the mouse or jump the cursor to.  The go-back marker 10 line rule doesn’t apply. To give it a try, just…

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…

Whenever you can invoke statement completion, you can also execute the Edit.CompleteWord command.  This command will complete a word that is partially complete with no other possibilities.  And if there are other multiple possibilities, the command will invoke statement completion. [CTRL]+[Space] or [ALT]+[RIGHT] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.