Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Layouts

I hope this tip’s title makes sense.  The idea is that you select some text and then hit escape.  Where do you want the cursor to go?  If you want it to stay where it is, that’s the default behavior.  But if you want it to jump to the beginning of the selection (i.e. the…

Outlining is that little [PLUS] or [MINUS] sign in the left gutter of Visual studio. You see these around the manual regions that you create – and around natural code blocks like classes, methods, etc. New in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to create Ad-hoc regions, without the #region command. It’s rather nice, because…

Naturally you know drag and drop is supported in the designers, bringing in controls, and moving controls around the page. But did you know drag and drop also works for text? And [CTRL] drag = copy? Nice trick. Spend a minute watching this for the whole scoop.   This work is licensed under a Creative…

Do you ever write quick and dirty “do you think this will work?” code? I do. You have an idea – open up a quick console app, write some code, and then desert it never to be seen again. I do that a couple of times a week, and my hard drive ends up littered…