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#005 Move Tool Windows Using the keyboard
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…
#018 Format Document, and Format Selection
Visual studio wants you to be happy 🙂 If you like breaks before braces, and after; if you like self closing <br /> tags, if you don’t want self closing <br /> tags. Whatever your fancy, you can automatically have Visual Studio apply with a very quick keyboard combination. This is extremely helpful when you…
#89 Run external executables from the VS command line
The command Tools.Shell will run an external executable out of process from VS. To run, it is basically Shell <executable> But of course, we got optional arguments… Shell [/commandwindow] [/dir:folder] [/outputwindow] <executable> [/args] /commandwindow (or /c) – to display the executable’s output in the command window /outputwindow (or /o) – to display the executable’s output…
#53 How to enable Emacs and Brief editor emulations?
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.
#504 Debug ASP.net in any browser with #VisualStudio
When browsing the “Visual Studio” search on twitter, I saw a post from @GamersOnlyOlder asking about debugging asp.net in a browser other than Internet Explorer. Are you forced to use Internet Explorer when debugging ASP.net applications? Absolutely not. This quick tip/trick shows how to browse and setup a default browser to use when debugging ASP.net…
#029 Print the file name on Visual Studio Source code prints
Ever see a random printed page of source code and wonder where it came from? Print the file name in the header to eliminate this from ever happening to you. This video shows you where to setup Visual Studio to print the header.



