Just in case you ever need to do this…

Go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – All Languages – General and uncheck Auto List Members and Parameter Information.  If you just want to disable intellisense by default for a particular language, go to the Text Editor – <language> – General option page and set the behavior there.

Note that the intellisense commands themselves are not disabled, meaning you can still invoke intellisense via the keyboard shortcut or a toolbar button.

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.

Honestly, I had to ask around what this one did.  I couldn’t remember to save my life.

Automatic Delimiter Highlighting

Whenever you have code construct pairs (that’s what the documentation calls them), when you finish typing either the start or end pair, both pairs of words will become bold.  To turn off this feature, go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – General

Customizing the Automatic Delimiter Highlighting

You can customize the color for the bolding by going to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors and selecting Brace Matching (Highlight).

then volia…  (i knew that french degree would pay off one day)

Hey, you know you went back for a third helping at thanksgiving (unless you are my uncle jimmy, who gets 4ths and 5ths on their first pass).  So what could follow a Tip of the Day Browser?

How’s about a Tip of the Day Windows Sidebar Gadget!  Special thanks to Rob Caron for making this happen.  I didn’t write the gadget… i just supplied the content =P

Hope you all enjoyed your extra servings Turkey Day specials (a week late, but we are all still eating left-overs.)

Docked State

Full Tip Flyout

Undocked (shows last 5 tips)

So what Turkey Day was last week?  No reason why we can’t have a second helping of tip of the day… but as an add-in!

Beth Massi, our VB community expert, wrote a Tip of the Day Browser.  But even better, she’s got a Let’s Build an Add-In walkthrough, which she’s demo’ed at the DevTeach conference.

Pretty cool.  I know i’m very happy to have an easy way to browse all of my tips.  Thanks Beth!!