Did you know the Visual Studio Video tricks are mobile enabled. Try it — Browse to http://ScottCate.com/Tricks/002 on your phone, and see what happens. It’s actually a different video that plays, with a really nice zooming and panning effect, so it’s nicely formatted for the small screen. Now you can start getting notifications on your mobile…
Trick number #30 also talked about Bookmarks, but this time I go into a little more detail as to why your keyboard bindings might be different than what you’re seeing in the video. The short version is that you probably chose Visual Basic or Visual C# when you installed Visual Studio and each of these…
Visual Studio defaults to a tabbed interface. But you can also run Visual Studio as a MDI (Multiple Document Interface). This option let’s you acutally have windows inside your workspace, instead of only tabbed documents. This video shows you all about it. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Dock targets are great, they greatly simplify the ability to place a dock panel in Visual Studio in just the right location. Like a mind reading snap-to feature 🙂 Sometimes these dock targets get in the way with what you’re trying to do. If you need to move a dockable panel to a very specific…
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.
Over the last 24 months or so, I have joined a small group of folks who are passionate about sharing Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. I have now done talks, books, blogs, vlogs and classes around the world on better using Visual Studio. This year for TechEd North America I have done something special. I…
