Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Layouts

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…

Honestly, I had to ask around what this one did.  I couldn’t remember to save my life. Automatic Delimiter Highlighting Whenever you have code construct pairs (that’s what the documentation calls them), when you finish typing either the start or end pair, both pairs of words will become bold.  To turn off this feature, go…

Whenever you can invoke statement completion, you can also execute the Edit.CompleteWord command.  This command will complete a word that is partially complete with no other possibilities.  And if there are other multiple possibilities, the command will invoke statement completion. [CTRL]+[Space] or [ALT]+[RIGHT] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.