On the Tools – Options – Text Editor – File Extension page, you can map a file extension to one of the included editors.
And after mapping the .sara extension to a C# editor, we now get syntax highlight…
There is also an option to map files without extensions to a specific editor.
We all edit. Coders really are just really smart typists right? We make mistakes. We edit other peoples stuff, we have brain farts. These tricks teach you to delete fast and accurate. Delete words or whitespace groups forward or backwards. I use this all the time. These are tricks you should add to you daily…
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…
At the very top of the editor and just below the File Tab Channel, you’ll find the Navigation Bar. The left combo box lists objects and the right lists the select objects members. This is very useful when you need to jump to various functions throughout a large solution, or you want to see what…
Whenever you can invoke statement completion, you can also execute the Edit.CompleteWord command. This command will complete a word that is partially complete with no other possibilities. And if there are other multiple possibilities, the command will invoke statement completion. [CTRL]+[Space] or [ALT]+[RIGHT] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Visual Studio has many toolbars. The toolbars inside Tool Windows can be access from the keyboard. This video trick will show you how to move focus from the Tool Window, up onto the Toolbar, and select a specif icon. [SHIFT]+[ALT] = Jump to Toolbar inside a focused Tool window. [ALT]+[SHIFT] = Does not work, because…
Wanna get to the top of your screen, but you know PgUp is too far? How about the bottom? This is a cool trick that I find myself using all the time. It saves 100’s of ups and downs a day, because you can always get to the place you’re interested in faster than up,up,up,up,up,up,up,up….