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#42 Navigate to off screen tabs in Visual Studio
To many files open. [ALT]+[TAB] works, but here is an alternative. I use this quite often, but there is a little tiny glyph update that I didn’t notice before. Acutally I have noticed it, I just didn’t register the fact that it changed once in a while. Now I know why. Do you? This…
#52 How to enable URL Click Navigation in the VS Editor
This is enabled by default for most editors, but just in case you’re not able to click on a URL, here’s what you do. Go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – All Languages – General, and click on Enable single-click URL navigation.
#63 Copy Paste Parameter Info from the Tooltip
Intellisence is great. It shows us a lot, and mostly at the perfect time. When parameter info is being displayed in a tooltip, did you know you can copy or paste this information? This video trick shows you how. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[P] Paste the default parameter names directly into the function. [CTRL]+[ALT]+[SHIFT]+[C] Copy the info for some…
#010 Using and Avoiding Dock Targets
Dock targets are great, they greatly simplify the ability to place a dock panel in Visual Studio in just the right location. Like a mind reading snap-to feature ๐ Sometimes these dock targets get in the way with what youโre trying to do. If you need to move a dockable panel to a very specific…
#001 Incremental Search [CTRL]+[I]
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] โ Find Next [SHIFT]+[F3] โ Find Previous
#88 Log your command window session
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.



