The indicator margin has all these yellow and green ticks on it. What are they? This video shows you what they are, why they’re there, and how to show/hide them.
Tools|Options >> Text Edit / General >> Track Changes = Toggle the visible track changes
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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. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[C] Copy the info for some…
With the Find in Files window showing, you can change the Look In: combo box to anything except for open docs and current docs. This will enable the Look at these file types: option to select what files to search for. And for more advanced searching… There’s an ellipse “…” button next to the Look…
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.
No doubt you’ve seen how Visual Studio can dock tool windows in al kids of cool patterns, floating, docked, tabbed, etc. Did you know you can grab and move these tool windows with the keyboard? [ALT]+[MINUS {-}] = Show Tool Window Move Menu [ALT]+[F6] = Toggle Forward through all open Tool Windows [CTRL]+[PgDn] = Move…
Quick Find by default uses the options set in [CTRL]+[F] Find window. This quick video shows you how they work, and will help you quickly navigate your Quick Finds.
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…