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 VS 2005, we introduced Emacs and Brief emulations into the editor. Go to Tools – Options – Environment – Keyboard, and then drop down the Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme: Choose either Brief or Emacs.
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.
With the Find in Files window showing, you can change the Look In: combo box to anything except for open docs and current docs. This will enable the Look at these file types: option to select what files to search for. And for more advanced searching… There’s an ellipse “…” button next to the Look…
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….
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…
A previous tip talked about what that automatic delimiter highlighting option does. A follow-up tip is how to change the Brace Matching color. Go to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors, select Brace Matching (Rectangle), and set to the desired color.