It's time for an old favorite from the Visual Studio 2005 days... Remember How to search using the Ctrl+D Window from one of the earlier tips? Now let's have a little more fun... Press Ctrl+D to go to the Find Combo Box and then... Goto a … [Continue reading]
#90 Create a command alias
February 19, 2012 by
To create an alias, open up the Command Window (or anywhere you can type in VS commands) and type in something along the lines of alias GobblesGobblesGobbles help.about and now running GobblesGobblesGobbles from the VS command window will pop up … [Continue reading]
#89 Run external executables from the VS command line
February 19, 2012 by
The command Tools.Shell will run an external executable out of process from VS. To run, it is basically Shell <executable> But of course, we got optional arguments... Shell [/commandwindow] [/dir:folder] [/outputwindow] … [Continue reading]
#88 Log your command window session
February 19, 2012 by
You can record your command window session via the log command. Just run log -on <filename> and start recording. To finish logging, it's just log -off There is also an option to overwrite the existing file; otherwise it will … [Continue reading]
#87 Run Visual Studio commands with arguments from the command window
February 19, 2012 by
After the past several weeks of Find tips (i knew i would have a few tips, just not nearly a month's worth!), let's change things up a bit and talk about the command window. Press Ctrl+Alt+A to open the command window. Check the keybinding for … [Continue reading]
