Middle Button support in Visual Studio. What does it so? Watch this …
Dock targets are great, they greatly simplify the ability to place a dock panel in Visual Studio in just the right location. Like a mind reading snap-to feature 🙂 Sometimes these dock targets get in the way with what you’re trying to do. If you need to move a dockable panel to a very specific…
#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. http://scottcate.looplogic.com/dev315-intellisense
Onlining,Onlining,Onlining. You know the little [+] in the left margin of your code in Visual Studio? That is called outlining, and if you click the [+] your code region will expand, and the icon changes to a [-]. Pretty straight forward. But did you know you can do all of this from the keyboard, without using…
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…
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/documentation). This video shows you how to enable…
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. If/When I find an answer…