Working with a colleague? Doing a screen share? Have Visual Studio running on a projector? Get an error message that contains a line number? All these situations make your life tough if you have to watch the status bar to check your line numbers. This video shows you how to display the line numbers on the screen.

Tools | Options >> Text Editor | All Languages | General, and Check Line numbers

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Tabbing / Indenting / Undenting (okay that’s not a word, but it sounds good) in Visual Studio is very simple. There are several options to get your code formatted just the way you like it. This video trick shows you how.

[TAB] (With a line [or lines] highlighted) will further indent

[SHIFT]+[TAB] (With a line [or lines] highlighted) will decrease the current indentation

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Some languages (like SQL) have a long standing tradition of using upper case for the keywords. But to me, it’s kind of hard to type in upper case, but at the same time I like the way it looks when a stored procedure is nicely cap’d. This video shows you how to select a word, and make it all Uppercase, or all Lowercase. It can also be done from the Edit menu.

[CTRL]+[SHIFT]+U = Make Uppercase

[CTRL]+U = Make Lowercase (this is weird to me, they seem backwards)

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The indicator margin has all these yellow and green ticks on it. What are they? This video shows you what they are, why they’re there, and how to show/hide them.

Tools|Options >> Text Edit / General >> Track Changes = Toggle the visible track changes

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