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!!

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 click somewhere, then click somewhere else (or do a find or a goto if you’re using the keyboard), then press undo.  You’ll move back to that previous location.

The option can be found at Tools – Options – Text Editor – General

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 selection anchor), you need to go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – General and check the Go to selection anchor after escape.