Toggling bookmarks are extremely helpful. You have to jump from file A to file B, over to file J, back to B, back to A. (Sound familiar to what you did today 🙂 – Bookmarks are little popcorn nuggets you can leave along your trail to find your way back to where you once were…
You’ve probably noticed that doing a Find in Files returns all the hits in a Find Results tool window. Did you know, you can use [F8] (with focus either in the Find Results window or in the editor) to navigate to the next result or [SHIFT]+[F8] to the previous result. (Edit.GoToNextLocation and Edit.GoToPrevLocation) The video…
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…
With the Find in Files window showing, you can change the Look In: combo box to anything except for open docs and current docs. This will enable the Look at these file types: option to select what files to search for. And for more advanced searching… There’s an ellipse “…” button next to the Look…
As you mouse over a method in the Editor, a nice tooltip (as seen in the image below) is displayed for you showing you general information about the method, parameters, overloads, possible exceptions, and other documentation pulled from the meta data about the method (including your custom comments/documentation). This video shows you how to enable…
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…
