Ever try to search for something you know exists, BUT … the Quick Find just can’t find it? Is it possible that the text you’re looking for is in a hidden region? This video shows you how toe search hidden text in collapsed regions. [CTRL]+[F] brings up the Find and Replace tool window. You can…
The standard keyboard shortcut for finding text in most applications is CTRL+F. In Visual Studio, this kicks off a Quick Find in the current document. Quick Find will pre-populate the find what text with whatever text is selected in the editor or the word that the cursor is currently on. Additionally, this find and replace…
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.
As you mouse over a method in the Editor, a nice tooltip (as seen in the image below) is displayed for you showing you general information about the method, parameters, overloads, possible exceptions, and other documentation pulled from the meta data about the method (including your custom comments/documentation). This video shows you how to enable…
Intellisence is great. It shows us a lot, and mostly at the perfect time. When parameter info is being displayed in a tooltip, did you know you can copy or paste this information? This video trick shows you how. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[P] Paste the default parameter names directly into the function. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[C] Copy the info for some…
Intellisense is great – probably the greatest thing ever invented to help developers productivity. But ListMembers isn’t always what you want. If you have CTRL+Space embedded in your brain telling Visual Studio to “Show my what I can put here” you’re getting a ListMembers popup. What you sometimes want is a ListParameters Tooltip, and this…
In WPF which is better, to Screen Stack, or Load on Demand. By ScreenStack, I mean to load all the screen dynamically onto a stack, and then set the visible property of all to false, except the one you want displayed. Like a stack of pancakes, popping the current screen to the top when you…
If you’re presenting Visual Studio on a projector, one of the first things you probably do is downsize to 1024X768, and edit your font size to be larger so the people in the back can read your screen. BUT … most presenters forget to also change the Tooltip font size. Did you know that could…
Once statement completion is up in Visual Basic context (sorry C-Sharpers) there is a tabbed view of options. One tab is Common (the default) and one tab is (ALL). You can switch between these tab from teh Keyboard – and this video quickly shows you how. Press [ALT]+[.] to move to the All tab Press…