#505 Search within your Find Results
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.
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.
Resizing internal floating windows in Visual Studio? Easy with the mouse right. Just a simple drag-n-drop. But for you keyboard fanatics, did you know you can resize floating windows from using keyboard shortcuts? This one will win bets in a Best of Visual Studio contest. [ALT], [SPACE] = Context menu for floating window
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…
To create an alias, open up the Command Window (or anywhere you can type in VS commands) and type in something along the lines of alias GobblesGobblesGobbles help.about and now running GobblesGobblesGobbles from the VS command window will pop up the Help About menu. I will award bonus points if you can figure out the…
Outlining is a very popular feature of Visual Studio. Outlining is the [+] sign you see in Visual Studio on the left margin that lets your collapse and expand code. What happens if you select 3 visual lines of code, and the middle line of code is actually a collapsed region? Watch this video to…
Go to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors. This is where you’re used to changing the font size, especially those of us that present with Visual Studio on a projector. When you change the editor font size to 20 for the audience to be able to read it, only the editor changes. This video…
These are great. I already knew the keyboard shortcuts, but I didn’t know the toolbar tricks. For once (this is unusual) the tool bar offers a tiny bit of visual help that superceeds the use of the keybaord only tricks. Confused? That’s why I like video. You will too. Watch video #41 [CTRL]+ [-] =…