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.
In Visual Studio past, creating a new project or solution was harder than it is today with 2010. The reasons are numerous, but the biggest time saver is New Project Type filtering. Need a console app? Just start typing “cons” and the list of all possible project types on your system are displayed. You can…
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…
No doubt you’ve seen how Visual Studio can dock tool windows in al kids of cool patterns, floating, docked, tabbed, etc. Did you know you can grab and move these tool windows with the keyboard? [ALT]+[MINUS {-}] = Show Tool Window Move Menu [ALT]+[F6] = Toggle Forward through all open Tool Windows [CTRL]+[PgDn] = Move…
If you’re a developer like me, you live 90% of your work life at your computer, inside Visual Studio. These tips and tricks will help you inside the editor. New VS2010 Features like Call Hierarchy, find all references, go to definition, the new Code Definition Window, Navigating Highlighted words and references, Multi-Line Edit, and Zoom….
Some languages (like SQL) have a long standing tradition of using upper case for the keywords. But to me, it’s kind of hard to type in upper case, but at the same time I like the way it looks when a stored procedure is nicely cap’d. This video shows you how to select a word,…
When you press [CTRL]+[F] for find, one of the nice features of Visual Studio is the context find that happens. The word/phrase that your cursor is currently on is forwarded to the “Find What” section of the dialog box. The thinking here is pretty simple, which is, you’re probably going to search for another instance…