In the real world, or Visual Studio solutions are big. Multi Projects. Lots of Code. Lots of Files, Classes, etc. This new #VS2010 feature may be the most friendly new feature, and the largest time saving feature you learn. Better, Faster Navigation. Have something in your head you want to get? A File? A Method? Some Class somewhere? This Navigation video tells all. Check it out!

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-navigation

Over the last 24 months or so, I have joined a small group of folks who are passionate about sharing Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. I have now done talks, books, blogs, vlogs and classes around the world on better using Visual Studio. This year for TechEd North America I have done something special. I decided to pre-record and video blog my talk demos, slide by slide. And I’ll be releasing these series over the next week. So when my TechEd talk starts, all of the content will be online. Below is a list of the slides, and as I publish the video segment, I’ll move the slide above the “To be Published” double red line. Enjoy!

You can see the links in the slides – but they will not be made available until the video is released.

 

TechEd Video Parts (Click PPT Slide For Video)

 

 

 

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TechEd Video Blogs to be Rendered / Published

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Press the keyboard chord [ALT]+[F3],[S] (bound to Edit.StopSearch) to stop a background search, also known as a Find in Files. You can also press the Stops a background Find toolbar button on the Find Results window.

This worked fine in my test with VS2008, but isn’t working on my tests with VS2010. If/When I find an answer I’ll update the post and the video with my findings.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/vstricks080

Ever user [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[F] and find too many results? Narrow your search scope, OR … search within the results. Didn’t know you could do that did you? This video shows you how.

You’ve probably noticed that doing a Find in Files returns all the hits in a Find Results tool window.  Did you know, you can use [F8] (with focus either in the Find Results window or in the editor) to navigate to the next result or [SHIFT]+[F8] to the previous result.  (Edit.GoToNextLocation and Edit.GoToPrevLocation) The video is pretty helpful for the visual – but this is a trick you’ll want to remember, I use it 100’s of times a day.

Oh, and yes, you can do a quick find [CTRL]+[F3] within the Find Results window. So this let’s you find inside the find results, which may be helpful if what you searched for brought back more results that you hoped for ::smiles:: I think that warrants a video trick upon itself.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/vstricks079