Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Layouts

Intellisense is great – probably the greatest thing ever invented to help developers productivity. But ListMembers isn’t always what you want. If you have CTRL+Space embedded in your brain telling Visual Studio to “Show my what I can put here” you’re getting a ListMembers popup. What you sometimes want is a ListParameters Tooltip, and this…

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…

Swapping anchor points. This one left me wondering for a few minutes, but afer I figured it out, it was very nice. Many times I’ve selected the wrong text by a line or character or two. Only to have to reselect the entire selection. This video trick shows you how to expand your selction on…

You can cycle through the past 20 items you’ve either cut or copied onto the clipboard via Ctrl+Shift+V.  Pretty cool, huh? As an added bonus for users of Visual Studio 2005, on the View menu, there is the option to view your Clipboard ring, which shows up as a list in your Toolbox. That visual…

Have you seen screen casts, or demos, or other folks using Visual Studio with a funky color scheme? Back backgrounds? Green backgrounds? Pink Backgrounds? Hey, whatever tickels your fancy, Visual Studio will come through for you. Kidding aside, there are some pretty cool themes with dark background colors. Here is one and here is another one….

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…