Yet another search tip. This is a helpful feature that helps you remember and reuse searches that you have already done. This info persists across sessions, so when you open Studio next time, you’ll be able to see a history from the last session’s find/search data.
[CTRL]+[D] Focus to the Quick Find document.
As of today, this is my new favorite feature. I’m on a call, or in the middle of something, and can’t take an incoming call. There is the ignore button that sends someone to voice mail, but then I have to check voice mail.
This feature let’s you Auto Reply to caller with a predetermined text message, or let’s you type something back. Nice if you’re on a conference call or something. Hopefully your text will get there before the caller leaves a voice mail 
so you don’t have to also check that.
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Space management in Visual Studio is important. Especially if you have Studio running on a projector, small monitory, or are using the split screen options extensively.
Visual Studio has a couple of running modes, and each of these modes has it’s own memory. So when you’re in Full Screen, Debug, or Normal mode, Visual Studio will remember your window/panel/toolbar locations for that specific session.
I like to run my Solution Explorer on the left in regular and full screen mode, but on the right in while in debug view. This is a huge reminder to me that I’m running in debug mode.
Just get a high score you want to save (for bragging rights)? Or you want to save that 4 Square Check in?
Here is my favorite? Screen shot the bar code on your boarding pass in the email app. Then when you get to the event or airport, the barcode or QRCode is already in your “screenshots”, which is much faster to navigate to.
This quick Windows Phone 8 screen cast, shows how to take a screen shot, shows you where it’s saved on your phone, and also shared the photo up to facebook.
If you have low vision, or find your self squinting to see really tiny, Windows Phone 8 has a really nice feature named “Screen Magnifier”. This could help if you’re in a dark area (like on a plane, or cab at night), so it’s a nice feature to learn and love.
It’s a little hard to get used to,m because of the two finger – double tap that needs to happen, but with a little practice it become second nature.
Enjoy!
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