#505 Search within your Find Results

Swapping anchor points. This one left me wondering for a few minutes, but afer I figured it out, it was very nice. Many times I’ve selected the wrong text by a line or character or two. Only to have to reselect the entire selection. This video trick shows you how to expand your selction on…

C# Visual Studio 2005 Default Keyboard Layout     Visual Basic Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Layout

C# Visual Studio 2008 Default Keyboard Layout     Visual Base 2008 Default Keyboard Layout

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.

The Find and Replace window is not a dialog, but actually a tool window.  Thus you can dock it to the side if you find it in your way. Right-click on the tool window Titlebar and select Dockable.  Now the tool window can be docked using a docking target.  Additionally, you can go to Window menu…