#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.
We have had block select in Visual Studio for a long time. The idea of block select is simple, sometimes you want to select columns and rows (in a block) instead of the normal line by line select you get with normal drag-n-drop selection, or [SHIFT]+[ARROW] selection. We talked about this for older versions of…
Once statement completion is up in Visual Basic context (sorry C-Sharpers) there is a tabbed view of options. One tab is Common (the default) and one tab is (ALL). You can switch between these tab from teh Keyboard – and this video quickly shows you how. Press [ALT]+[.] to move to the All tab Press…
The standard keyboard shortcut for finding text in most applications is CTRL+F. In Visual Studio, this kicks off a Quick Find in the current document. Quick Find will pre-populate the find what text with whatever text is selected in the editor or the word that the cursor is currently on. Additionally, this find and replace…
VSTricks.com is alive (as of today) in part of a community new years (2009) resolution. Today is January 1st, 2009, and I’m hearing everyone talking about resolutions. Working out, eating right, stop smoking, this and that, blah, blah, blah. Good. More power to you. If New Years is the lame excuse you need to get…
After the past several weeks of Find tips (i knew i would have a few tips, just not nearly a month’s worth!), let’s change things up a bit and talk about the command window. Press Ctrl+Alt+A to open the command window. Check the keybinding for View.CommandWindow if your keybindings are different. Also available from the…
Space management in Visual Studio is important. Especially if you have Studio running on a projector, small monitory, or are using the split screen options extensively. Visual Studio has a couple of running modes, and each of these modes has it’s own memory. So when you’re in Full Screen, Debug, or Normal mode, Visual Studio…