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#84 Search for a symbol

Another search tip/trick or command is Symbol Search. This is much different than a string search. Watch this short video to learn about the built in Symbol Search in Visual Studio Edit.FindSymbol is also bound to [Alt]+[F12]. You can search within your current solution (including or excluding refer

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#83 Search from the command line

Did you know Visual Studio has a Command mode? This isn’t cmd.exe – but it’s virutally the same concept, inside of visual studio. This command window will let you type commands for virtually any command in Visual Studio. This video will show you how to search from the Command Line. Additional Comman

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#82 Show and hide find messages

Ever dismiss a dialog, and then want to get it back again? Far too often, we uncheck the "Show this message again" checkbox not knowing how to get the message back. For Find and Replace, you can specify whether to hide or show these message boxes at Tools – Options – Environment – Find and

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#81 Replace in all files (With Undo Support)

Global search/replace can be tricky. Often times you’ll end up replacing something that you didn’t realize was going to be replaced. Having an undo feature is vey helpful. This video shows you the ins and outs, of Find/Replace in all files. Just like Ctrl+H does a Quick Replace, Ctrl+Shi

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TechEd DEV315 VSTricks – Temp Projects

Do you ever write quick and dirty “do you think this will work?” code? I do. You have an idea – open up a quick console app, write some code, and then desert it never to be seen again. I do that a couple of times a week, and my hard drive ends up littered

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TechEd DEV315 VSTricks – New Projects

In Visual Studio past, creating a new project or solution was harder than it is today with 2010. The reasons are numerous, but the biggest time saver is New Project Type filtering. Need a console app? Just start typing “cons” and the list of all possible project types on your system are displayed. Y

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TechEd DEV315 VSTricks – Intellisense

#VS2010 has several enhancements in and around the Intellisense features. This short 3 minute video will walk you through using them, and specifically talking about camelCase filtering, intellisense with” “Suggest” vs. “Force” mode, and using undeclared types.

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TechEd Dev315 – Start Page Speed

#VS2010 has a bunch of new features around how to start, what do do with startup, and how to quickly launch the projects you usually are working on. Pinning, Deleting, Unpinning, and if you’re using Windows 7 – there is task bar pinning. This short video will go over all of them.

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TechEd Dev315 VSTricks – Editor Tricks

If you’re a developer like me, you live 90% of your work life at your computer, inside Visual Studio. These tips and tricks will help you inside the editor. New VS2010 Features like Call Hierarchy, find all references, go to definition, the new Code Definition Window, Navigating Highlighted words an