If you ever have an audience that is looking at your screen, you have a couple of options to change your screen resolution. You can go all out, and actually change your resolution, but that sometimes has a drastic effect that manipulates all your applications, toolbars, etc. Remember that there is a difference in what…
When browsing the “Visual Studio” search on twitter, I saw a post from @GamersOnlyOlder asking about debugging asp.net in a browser other than Internet Explorer. Are you forced to use Internet Explorer when debugging ASP.net applications? Absolutely not. This quick tip/trick shows how to browse and setup a default browser to use when debugging ASP.net…
Organization is the name of the game, when keeping track of files/folders on your computer. Any computer, Any operating system, it doesn’t matter, if you have tens of thousands of files, they need to be organized. Typically these are organized is some sort of nested fashion. If you don’t use folders, then you end up…
We have had block select in Visual Studio for a long time. The idea of block select is simple, sometimes you want to select columns and rows (in a block) instead of the normal line by line select you get with normal drag-n-drop selection, or [SHIFT]+[ARROW] selection. We talked about this for older versions of…
When doing a quick find, you can select the scope of your search, including the current code block, current document, all open documents, current project, and entire solution. There is even a way to scope your search, to only look in the current code block. This might be nice for finding local variables, or when…
Recently I have been getting a lot of positive feedback for my work around the Visual Studio tricks. I try to make the video tricks under 90 seconds, and while the original Video Tips were a replay on Sara Ford’s original tips, I’m ramping up to get the tips out starting for the new Visual…
Running the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks video blog, I have a lot of screen casts to share. In order to do this, I need to host the videos somewhere. When you think video, first you think of YouTube, at least I do. But there are other options, that are also free, or close to…
In Visual Studio 2008, you could turn on the keyboard bindings to be displayed with the Tooltips. For example, if you hover over the save icon, you would also see CTRL+S. This was tip #64 for 2008, but seems to be missing from 2010. And I looked in every place I could, including the registry….
If you’re seen the tech new recently, you’ve heard about the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference). If you couldn’t make the conference (like me) then you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft has posted video of all the sessions and keynotes. And they’re available for download. In fact, here is a set of CURL scripts…