DTL326 Visual Studio Tips and Tricks – Scott Cate

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Sara Ford – 380 Tips and Tricks

http://ScottCate.com/Tricks/001

I will just list out the tips that he goes over by number.

Block Select – Cool – 002

050 – Turn off the setting to turn off the copying of blank lines

051 – Clipboard ring.  Go Through Clipboard stack

091 – Driving from the find box – Get Intellisense on your find opearations.  Awesome. 

121 – News Channel – on load of VS – The ol’ trick that I showed you before

125 – Working with paths – Open Folder in Solution Explorer, Open Containing Folder

158 – Throwaway Project – Cannot be added to an existing solution

184 – Undocumented tip – Vertical Guidelines -

191 – Adding Code Snippets to Your Toolbox – Josh’s favorites

234 – Introduction to code snippets – easy to modify – Community web site with 1000’s of code snippets

237 – Trace Point - Conditional breakpoint – When breakpoint is hit

Cold in here…

242 – Font Size change on the fly – Alt-F8 Macros – Samples – bind a macro to a keyboard shutcut

274 – Disable the exception assistant

231 – XML visualizer – like XML notepad

331 – File Sorting for your open file list – Registry Hack – Awesome I think

332 - Edit the project (while unloaded)

359 – Bring in the using statement Cntrl-.  (C#)

363 – Display Source Custom Results

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