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.
Global search/replace can be tricky. Often times you’ll end up replacing something that you didn’t realize was going to be replaced. Having an undo feature is vey helpful. This video shows you the ins and outs, of Find/Replace in all files. Just like Ctrl+H does a Quick Replace, Ctrl+Shift+H will bring up the Replace in…
Middle Button support in Visual Studio. What does it so? Watch this … This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
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Incremental search can also be thought of as live search. The cursor highlights the first finding as you’re typing the search term. [CTRL]+[I] = Incremental Search [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[I] (Back Search) [F3] – Find Next [SHIFT]+[F3] – Find Previous
Did you know that you can search in Visual Studio using wildcards and regular expressions (in addition to the regular text search) right from the Find and Replace window? This short tip/trick video shows you how. Expand the Find options, and check Use: This will enable you to select either wildcards or regular expressions. With…
As you mouse over a method in the Editor, a nice tooltip (as seen in the image below) is displayed for you showing you general information about the method, parameters, overloads, possible exceptions, and other documentation pulled from the meta data about the method (including your custom comments/documentation). This video shows you how to enable…
And yet another way of searching code (or any text really) in Visual Studio… it’s called Find in Files. It is the most comprehensive way to do a search. Even if you’re not looking for code, this can search any text string, in any set of files. We’re not talking about files linked in a…