#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.
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…
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…
From now on, all tricks will be recorded using Visual Studio 2010, starting with the Beta2 Ultimate product. You’ll also notice that these are playing with YouTube now, since the announcement from Microsoft that Silverlight Live Hosting services will be going away. Anyway — this is a simple tip to show changing the background color…
The results of a Find Symbol or a Quick Find Symbol will appear in the Find Symbol results. Similar to the Find Results window (when searching for text), you can press Ctrl+Alt+F12 to bring up the Find Symbols Results window (View.FindSymbolResults) press F8 (Edit.GoToNextLocation) to navigate to the next result, and Shift+F8 (Edit.GoToPreviousLocation) to navigate…
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…
You can record your command window session via the log command. Just run log -on <filename> and start recording. To finish logging, it’s just log -off There is also an option to overwrite the existing file; otherwise it will append. Note that both dash and forward slash will work for command arguments.