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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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#90 Create a command alias
ByScott Cate February 19, 2012November 20, 2012

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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#63 Copy Paste Parameter Info from the Tooltip
ByScott Cate March 11, 2009November 20, 2012

Intellisence is great. It shows us a lot, and mostly at the perfect time. When parameter info is being displayed in a tooltip, did you know you can copy or paste this information? This video trick shows you how. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[P] Paste the default parameter names directly into the function. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[C] Copy the info for some…

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#030 Bookmarks Usage + Change Visibility and Line Colors in Visual Studio
ByScott Cate December 31, 2012December 31, 2012

Toggling bookmarks are extremely helpful. You have to jump from file A to file B, over to file J, back to B, back to A. (Sound familiar to what you did today 🙂 – Bookmarks are little popcorn nuggets you can leave along your trail to find your way back to where you once were…

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#36 Hide the outline selection margin in the Visual Studio Editor
ByScott Cate January 30, 2009November 20, 2012

On the topic of outlining, there is a tiny sliver of space taken up in your left margin to show the outlining. This video shows you how to turn that on or off. Personally I don’t see a reason to turn it off – BUT – I’m sure there is one. LIke maybe certain editor…

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#83 Search from the command line
ByScott Cate August 23, 2010November 20, 2012

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…

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#67 Search in hidden text in the editor?
ByScott Cate March 16, 2009November 20, 2012

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…

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