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 functions an object has (or is missing).

To jump to the navigation bar via the keyboard, press Ctrl+F2.  This is bound to the command Window.MoveToNavigationBar, so your keyboard shortcut mileage may vary. To toggle between the Objects list and the Members list, press Tab or Shift+Tab. 

Additionally, you can hide (or show) the navigation bar by going to Tools – Options – Text Editor – All Languages – General and setting the Navigation bar option to the desired setting.  Note that since this is found in All Languages, you can customize this for any listed language under the Text Editor node.

 

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 and set the behavior there.

Note that the intellisense commands themselves are not disabled, meaning you can still invoke intellisense via the keyboard shortcut or a toolbar button.

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 off this feature, go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – General

Customizing the Automatic Delimiter Highlighting

You can customize the color for the bolding by going to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors and selecting Brace Matching (Highlight).

then volia…  (i knew that french degree would pay off one day)