Sara Ford

Thank you Sara Ford for Starting VSTOD back in 2007. The tips were not easy to come up with, and you have spent many many hours/days/weeks/(more than a year in-fact) putting them together.

My hope is not only to enhance your original Tip Of the Day posts by adding video samples, but also continue to create new posts for tips and tricks from the Visual Studio team.

Sara Ford Blog

Sara also has a Visual Studio Tips and Tricks (251 Tips) book that is available here on Amazon. Sara is honored to send all proceeds of the book directly to a charity that helps send Hurricane Katrina survivors to college.

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#006 Resize Tool Windows Using the keyboard

Resizing internal floating windows in Visual Studio? Easy with the mouse right. Just a simple drag-n-drop. But for you keyboard fanatics, did you know you can resize floating windows from using keyboard shortcuts? This one will win bets in a Best of Visual Studio contest.

[ALT], [SPACE] = Context menu for floating window

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#005 Move Tool Windows Using the keyboard

No doubt you’ve seen how Visual Studio can dock tool windows in al kids of cool patterns, floating, docked, tabbed, etc. Did you know you can grab and move these tool windows with the keyboard?

[ALT]+[MINUS {-}] = Show Tool Window Move Menu

[ALT]+[F6] = Toggle Forward through all open Tool Windows

[CTRL]+[PgDn] = Move Right through tab groups in Tool Window

[CTRL]+[PgUp] = Move Left through tab groups in Tool Window

[SHIFT]+[F6] = Toggle Backwards through all open Tool Windows

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#004 Window Splitting in Visual Studio

Splitting windows/documents in multiple places can make your life much easier when working with a large number of documents. Check out the same document in split view to read the document in more than place (like top and bottom), or setup multiple documents side-by-side.

[MENU] Window|Split

[Footnote] Jan 8th, 8:15pm
Sorry for my voice in today’s screen cast – I’m currently befriending a bottle of Vitamin C to try and keep this sore throat in check. But I’m already behind on my new years resolution. There are over 300 of these tip tricks I need to video this year. It’s Jan. 8th, and I only have 4 videos, down 50% already. 🙂 It’ll be easy to catch up now, I already have the structure in place to pump out these videos.

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#003 Show/Hide White Space in Visual Studio

Show and Hide White Space in documents.

[CTRL]+[R] + [CTRL]+[W] = Toggle Show|Hide White Space

[Footnote] Jan 8th, 8:15pm
Sorry for my voice in today’s video’s – I’m currently befriending a bottle of Vitamin C to try and keep this sore throat in check. But I’m already behind on my new years resolution. There are over 300 of these tip tricks I need to video this year. It’s Jan. 8th, and I only have 4 videos, down 50% already. 🙂 It’ll be easy to catch up now, I already have the structure in place to pump out these videos.

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