Middle Button support in Visual Studio. What does it so? Watch this …
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 ListMembers popup. What you sometimes want is a ListParameters Tooltip, and this…
Tool Windows are great. But sometimes they contain too much information (like a search results window) to be displayed in the small portion you have allocated for the docked position of the window. This trick shows you how to move a Docked (or floating) window, up into your tabbed documents area.
After the past several weeks of Find tips (i knew i would have a few tips, just not nearly a month’s worth!), let’s change things up a bit and talk about the command window. Press Ctrl+Alt+A to open the command window. Check the keybinding for View.CommandWindow if your keybindings are different. Also available from the…
Did you know Visual Studio has a Command mode? This isn’t cmd.exe – but it’s virutally the same concept, inside of visual studio. This command window will let you type commands for virtually any command in Visual Studio. This video will show you how to search from the Command Line. Additional Command Line options: Edit.Find…
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…
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…