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Yet another search tip. This is a helpful feature that helps you remember and reuse searches that you have already done. This info persists across sessions, so when you open Studio next time, you’ll be able to see a history from the last session’s find/search data. [CTRL]+[D] Focus to the Quick Find
Space management in Visual Studio is important. Especially if you have Studio running on a projector, small monitory, or are using the split screen options extensively. Visual Studio has a couple of running modes, and each of these modes has it’s own memory. So when you’re in Full Screen, Debug, or
At the very top of the editor and just below the File Tab Channel, you’ll find the Navigation Bar. The left combo box lists objects and the right lists the select objects members. This is very useful when you need to jump to various functions throughout a large solution, or you want to see what
A previous tip talked about what that automatic delimiter highlighting option does. A follow-up tip is how to change the Brace Matching color. Go to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors, select Brace Matching (Rectangle), and set to the desired color.
Just in case you ever need to do this… Go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – All Languages – General and uncheck Auto List Members and Parameter Information. If you just want to disable intellisense by default for a particular language, go to the Text Editor – <language> – General option page
On the Tools – Options – Text Editor – File Extension page, you can map a file extension to one of the included editors. And after mapping the .sara extension to a C# editor, we now get syntax highlight… There is also an option to map files without extensions to a specific editor.
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
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
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
