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…

It turns out that there are many many ways to use the Go To Line feature. This video uses a couple, as well as tried to uncover a mystery. I’m going to need your help with this one. Please leave comments if you know the answer. What’s the question you ask? Watch the video 🙂…

  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.

Let’s say you are searching for some text and you already know about F3 and Shift+F3, so you want the [CTRL]+[F] Quick Find or the [CTRL]+[H] Quick Replace window to disappear after the first search. Go to Tools | Options | Environment | Find and Replace page, and check the Hide Find and Replace window…