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If you’re crazy about dropping bookmarks in your project, then you’ll love this ability to manage them. There’s a Bookmark Tool Window (or Panel) that allows you to organize and arrange your bookmarks. You can create one or many folders with name, and then jump between bookmarks just in
Trick number #30 also talked about Bookmarks, but this time I go into a little more detail as to why your keyboard bindings might be different than what you’re seeing in the video. The short version is that you probably chose Visual Basic or Visual C# when you installed Visual Studio and each
In VS 2005, we introduced Emacs and Brief emulations into the editor. Go to Tools – Options – Environment – Keyboard, and then drop down the Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme: Choose either Brief or Emacs.
This is enabled by default for most editors, but just in case you’re not able to click on a URL, here’s what you do. Go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – All Languages – General, and click on Enable single-click URL navigation.
You can cycle through the past 20 items you’ve either cut or copied onto the clipboard via Ctrl+Shift+V. Pretty cool, huh? As an added bonus for users of Visual Studio 2005, on the View menu, there is the option to view your Clipboard ring, which shows up as a list in your Toolbox. That visual
We all use CTRL+C and CTRL+V everyday, 1000 times. It’s one of the first things you have to learn as a programmer to keep you hands on the keyboard. It’s easy to sometimes press CTRL+C again, when in fact it’s time to Paste, so you really meant to press CTRL+V. Visual Studio will allow you
Sara Writes … There is no Ctrl+F in books! You know you’ve thought about it at some point it time… "where’s the Ctrl+F to search for something in the book you are reading." Sorry, there’s no Ctrl+F in books. And when I first read it – being the geek that I am, I thought she was
Build numbers are tricky. Just a set of digits, that we all try so hard to make more valuable than 1.0.0.0, which isn’t helpful at all. Our build servers build. That’s all they do is build. Well I guess they also package. It’s nice to know that the packages are without having to th
Yeah, ya, we all know [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], [CTRL]+[Z], Undo, Undo, Undo. Oops too far.. Redo, Redo, Redo. There is a better way to multiple undo / redo. This video shows you how. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
