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Whenever you can invoke statement completion, you can also execute the Edit.CompleteWord command. This command will complete a word that is partially complete with no other possibilities. And if there are other multiple possibilities, the command will invoke statement completion. [CTRL]+[Space] or [
As you mouse over a method in the Editor, a nice tooltip (as seen in the image below) is displayed for you showing you general information about the method, parameters, overloads, possible exceptions, and other documentation pulled from the meta data about the method (including your custom comments/
Intellisence is great. It shows us a lot, and mostly at the perfect time. When parameter info is being displayed in a tooltip, did you know you can copy or paste this information? This video trick shows you how. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[P] Paste the default parameter names directly into the function. [
Intellisense is great – probably the greatest thing ever invented to help developers productivity. But ListMembers isn’t always what you want. If you have CTRL+Space embedded in your brain telling Visual Studio to “Show my what I can put here” you’re getting a ListMembe
In WPF which is better, to Screen Stack, or Load on Demand. By ScreenStack, I mean to load all the screen dynamically onto a stack, and then set the visible property of all to false, except the one you want displayed. Like a stack of pancakes, popping the current screen to the top when you
If you’re presenting Visual Studio on a projector, one of the first things you probably do is downsize to 1024X768, and edit your font size to be larger so the people in the back can read your screen. BUT … most presenters forget to also change the Tooltip font size. Did you know that c
Once statement completion is up in Visual Basic context (sorry C-Sharpers) there is a tabbed view of options. One tab is Common (the default) and one tab is (ALL). You can switch between these tab from teh Keyboard – and this video quickly shows you how. Press [ALT]+[.] to move to the All tab Press
You can resize the statement completion dialog box from any direction, once it’s open, grab a side or a corner. Interestingly, there are max and min heights (max is limited to 1/3 of screen size) and while there are no limits on the max width, only the height is persisted.
Go to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors. This is where you’re used to changing the font size, especially those of us that present with Visual Studio on a projector. When you change the editor font size to 20 for the audience to be able to read it, only the editor changes. This video
