#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.
After you search and find an item, [F3] will search and find the same item again. [SHIFT]-[F3] will find the same item, but will look behind your current cursor position. Obviously, you can also press the Find Next button on the Find and Replace window, if it’s open. One thing to note about [F3], is…
Ever try to search for something you know exists, BUT … the Quick Find just can’t find it? Is it possible that the text you’re looking for is in a hidden region? This video shows you how toe search hidden text in collapsed regions. [CTRL]+[F] brings up the Find and Replace tool window. You can…
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
Commenting code is great. We all do it, all day long. Commonly I’ll see the following done to comment multiple lines of C# code. [HOME],[/],[/],[UP],[HOME],<Repeat /> This just takes too long. It’s too many keystrokes. This Quick 2 minute video shows you all about commenting, and uncommenting, and even has an added little trick to…
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…
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