Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Layouts

You can record your command window session via the log command.  Just run log -on <filename> and start recording.  To finish logging, it’s just log -off There is also an option to overwrite the existing file; otherwise it will append.  Note that both dash and forward slash will work for command arguments. 

To create an alias, open up the Command Window (or anywhere you can type in VS commands) and type in something along the lines of alias GobblesGobblesGobbles help.about and now running GobblesGobblesGobbles from the VS command window will pop up the Help About menu.  I will award bonus points if you can figure out the…

VSTricks.com is alive (as of today) in part of a community new years (2009) resolution. Today is January 1st, 2009, and I’m hearing everyone talking about resolutions. Working out, eating right, stop smoking, this and that, blah, blah, blah. Good. More power to you. If New Years is the lame excuse you need to get…

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…

I hope this tip’s title makes sense.  The idea is that you select some text and then hit escape.  Where do you want the cursor to go?  If you want it to stay where it is, that’s the default behavior.  But if you want it to jump to the beginning of the selection (i.e. the…

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…