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#505 Search within your Find Results

ByScott Cate June 1, 2010November 20, 2012

Ever user [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[F] and find too many results? Narrow your search scope, OR … search within the results. Didn’t know you could do that did you? This video shows you how.

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#96 What does that Automatic Delimiter Highlighting option do?
ByScott Cate February 19, 2012November 20, 2012

Honestly, I had to ask around what this one did. I couldn’t remember to save my life. Automatic Delimiter Highlighting Whenever you have code construct pairs (that’s what the documentation calls them), when you finish typing either the start or end pair, both pairs of words will become bold. To turn off this feature, go…

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#79 Use F8 to Navigate the Find Results window
ByScott Cate May 31, 2010December 10, 2012

You’ve probably noticed that doing a Find in Files returns all the hits in a Find Results tool window. Did you know, you can use [F8] (with focus either in the Find Results window or in the editor) to navigate to the next result or [SHIFT]+[F8] to the previous result. (Edit.GoToNextLocation and Edit.GoToPrevLocation) The video…

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#009 Move Tool Windows to a Tabbed Document
ByScott Cate January 8, 2009December 21, 2012

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.

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#008 Undocking and Redocking in and out of Floating Windows
ByScott Cate January 8, 2009December 24, 2012

Docked windows are great, but are sometimes just a bit too small. They are sometimes holding more information (find results, or stack trace come to mind), than the real estate they have been given. You can easily resize the dock panel, but that will replace other real estate that you’re probably also looking at (which…

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#48 Undo and Redo magic (with multiple levels) in Visual Studio
ByScott Cate February 10, 2009November 20, 2012

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.

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#026 Show Line numbers in Visual Studio
ByScott Cate December 31, 2012December 31, 2012

Working with a colleague? Doing a screen share? Have Visual Studio running on a projector? Get an error message that contains a line number? All these situations make your life tough if you have to watch the status bar to check your line numbers. This video shows you how to display the line numbers on…

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