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#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.
#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.
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
Visual Studio Support Multiple Monitors? This video shows you how. Peel out windows, like the Solution Explorer, dock them to you second monitor, and the best part is, the window position persists across VS2010 restarts. Very Nice! Check out the video – it’s only 3 Minutes.
Outlining is that little [PLUS] or [MINUS] sign in the left gutter of Visual studio. You see these around the manual regions that you create – and around natural code blocks like classes, methods, etc. New in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to create Ad-hoc regions, without the #region command. It
In the real world, or Visual Studio solutions are big. Multi Projects. Lots of Code. Lots of Files, Classes, etc. This new #VS2010 feature may be the most friendly new feature, and the largest time saving feature you learn. Better, Faster Navigation. Have something in your head you want to get? A Fi
Over the last 24 months or so, I have joined a small group of folks who are passionate about sharing Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. I have now done talks, books, blogs, vlogs and classes around the world on better using Visual Studio. This year for TechEd North America I have done something special.
Press the keyboard chord [ALT]+[F3],[S] (bound to Edit.StopSearch) to stop a background search, also known as a Find in Files. You can also press the Stops a background Find toolbar button on the Find Results window. This worked fine in my test with VS2008, but isn’t working on my tests with VS2010.
Ever user [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[F] and find too many results? Narrow your search scope, OR … search within the results. Didn’t know you could do that did you? This video shows you how.
