- Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tips
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- Praise for Microsoft Visual Studio Tips . . .
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Get Back to Basics with Your Editor
- Basic Editing
- Text Editing
- Tip 1.1: How to not accidentally copy a blank line
- Tip 1.2: How to cycle through the Clipboard ring to paste different things
- Tip 1.3: You can use Ctrl+Enter to insert a line above and Ctrl+Shift+Enter to insert a line below
- Tip 1.4: You can use Ctrl+W to select the current word
- Tip 1.5: You can use Ctrl+Delete to delete the next word and Ctrl+Backspace to delete the preceding word
- Tip 1.6: You can use Ctrl+L to cut the current line and Ctrl+Shift+L to delete the current line
- Tip 1.7: How to delete horizontal white space at the beginning of a line
- Tip 1.8: You can drag code or text to a new location
- Tip 1.9: You can right-drag code to Move Here or Copy Here
- Tip 1.10: How to transpose characters, words, and lines in the editor
- Tip 1.11: You can use a keyboard shortcut to uppercase or lowercase a word in the editor
- Undo/Redo
- Text Editing
- Scrolling and Navigation
- Scrolling
- Navigating Within and Among Editors
- Tip 1.16: How to navigate forward and backward in the editor all because of go-back markers
- Tip 1.17: How to use Undo to jump the cursor back to the last insertion point
- Tip 1.18: How to reach the navigation bar via the keyboard
- Tip 1.19: How to split a window and create new windows
- Tip 1.20: You can use F6 to jump between split panes in the editor
- Tip 1.21: How to enable URL navigation within the editor
- Tip 1.22: How to use Ctrl+G without the Go To Line dialog box popping up
- Word Wrap versus Virtual Space
- Editor Fonts and Colors
- Printing
- Status Bar
- Basic Editing
- 2. Make Your Editor Work for You
- Advanced Editing
- Selection
- Tip 2.1: How to use box/column selection in the editor
- Tip 2.2: How to jump to the beginning of some selected text when hitting escape
- Tip 2.3: You can use Ctrl+= to select code from the current cursor location to the last go-back marker
- Tip 2.4: How to swap the current anchor position in the editor
- Commenting
- Formatting
- Tip 2.6: You can display guidelines in the editor to help format your code
- Tip 2.7: How to format the document, the selected text, or just the current line
- Tip 2.8: How to keep tabs or to insert spaces
- Tip 2.9: How to convert spaces to tabs and tabs to spaces
- Tip 2.10: You can increase and decrease the line indent from the text editor toolbar
- Tip 2.11: What’s the difference between smart indenting and block indenting?
- Outlining
- Emulations
- Binary Editor
- Delimiter Highlighting and Brace Matching
- Clean up unused code
- AutoRecover
- File Extensions
- Selection
- Opening Files
- Opening Files and Editor Windows
- Tip 2.22: How to reuse the same editor window when opening files
- Tip 2.23: How to automatically refresh an open document in the editor
- Tip 2.24: How to edit a read-only file in Visual Studio
- Tip 2.25: How to customize what directory the File–Open–File dialog box opens to
- Tip 2.26: How to customize the number of items shown in the Recent Files lists (and where to find those lists)
- Opening Files and Editor Windows
- Bookmarks
- IntelliSense
- Statement Completion, Parameter Info, and Complete Word
- Tip 2.30: You can use Ctrl+J to invoke statement completion
- Tip 2.31: How to display parameter info for a function
- Tip 2.32: How to display quick info for a function
- Tip 2.33: How to complete a word
- Tip 2.34: How to increase the statement completion font size
- Tip 2.35: You can resize the statement completion dialog box
- Tip 2.36: You can toggle between the Common and All Statement Completion tabs via the keyboard
- Tip 2.37: How to turn off IntelliSense by default
- Statement Completion, Parameter Info, and Complete Word
- Code Snippets
- Using Code Snippets
- Tip 2.38: You can use Ctrl+K, Ctrl+X to insert a code snippet
- Tip 2.39: You can insert a code snippet via its shortcut keyword
- Tip 2.40: You can insert a snippet by pressing Tab Tab
- Tip 2.41: How to browse code snippets and add new ones
- Tip 2.42: How to change default values and variables in a code snippet
- Tip 2.43: How to share code snippets with your team
- Tip 2.44: How to insert a code snippet around a block of code
- Using Code Snippets
- Advanced Editing
- 3. Find What You Are Searching For
- 4. Manage Your Environment Layout
- Document Windows
- File Tab Channel
- Tip 4.1: You can use Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow to drop down the file tab channel file menu
- Tip 4.2: You can use Close All But This on files in the file tab channel
- Tip 4.3: You can copy a file’s full path from the file tab channel
- Tip 4.4: You can open a Windows Explorer browser directly to the active file
- Tip 4.5: How to close just the selected files you want
- Tip 4.6: Under what condition does the file tab channel drop-down button change its icon?
- IDE Navigator
- Keyboard Navigation
- MDI Mode
- File Tab Channel
- Tool Windows
- Dockable State
- Autohiding State
- Tip 4.17: You can autohide all of your tool windows with one command
- Tip 4.18: You can customize how pressing a tool window push pin autohides the tool window or tool window tab group
- Tip 4.19: You can show autohiding tool windows via the tool window autohide channel
- Tip 4.20: You can double-click the tool window title bar to redock the tool window
- Tip 4.21: You can use Shift+Click to automatically dock an autohiding tool window
- Tip 4.22: You can speed up or slow down how fast a tool window slides out from a docked position
- Floating State
- Tabbed Document State
- Keyboard Navigation
- Hide State
- Hidden Keyboard Shortcuts
- Window Layouts
- Toolbars and Context Menus
- Toolbars
- Tip 4.36: You can make a toolbar float
- Tip 4.37: You can hide or show the default buttons from any toolbar
- Tip 4.38: How to display any toolbar at any time
- Tip 4.39: You can switch and swap buttons on the toolbars while the Tools–Customize dialog box is showing
- Tip 4.40: You can show shortcut keys in toolbar ToolTips
- Context Menus
- Toolbars
- Document Windows
- 5. Discover More Tools for Your Design Time, Part 1
- Tool Windows
- Command Window
- Output Window
- Tip 5.6: You can use F8 and Shift+F8 to navigate among errors in the Output window
- Tip 5.7: You can double-click messages in the Output window to jump to that location in the code
- Tip 5.8: You can use the keyboard to jump to various panes within the Output window
- Tip 5.9: How to stop the Output window from showing itself during a build
- Tip 5.10: You can enable word wrap in the Output window
- Tip 5.11: You can customize the color scheme in the Output window
- Tip 5.12: You can redirect debug messages to the Output window
- Tip 5.13: You cannot enable Stop Search on the Output window
- Toolbox
- Tip 5.14: You can drag and drop code onto the Toolbox’s General tab
- Tip 5.15: Why does each Toolbox group have a Pointer control?
- Tip 5.16: How to stop the Toolbox from autopopulating with items found in the solution
- Tip 5.17: You can use * to expand all and / to collapse all in the Toolbox
- Tip 5.18: You can use Ctrl+Up Arrow and Ctrl+Down Arrow to move among the various control groups in the Toolbox
- Tip 5.19: You can sort items in the Toolbox alphabetically
- Tip 5.20: You can switch between the Icon view and List Item view in the Toolbox
- Tip 5.21: You can use Show All to find your hiding Toolbox controls
- Tip 5.22: You can use Ctrl+C to copy controls in a Toolbox tab and then use Ctrl+V to paste the controls into another Toolbox tab
- Tip 5.23: You can create new Toolbox tabs
- Task List
- Tip 5.24: You can use the Task List to create user tasks that are separate from your code
- Tip 5.25: You can assign a priority to your Task List’s user tasks
- Tip 5.26: How to create and view TODO comments in the Task List
- Tip 5.27: You can create shortcuts in your Task List
- Tip 5.28: You can show HACK, UNDONE, and custom tokens in the Task List
- Tip 5.29: How to disable the prompt for deleting the Task List’s user tasks
- Tip 5.30: You can show a full file path in the Task List
- Tip 5.31: You can create keyboard shortcuts to navigate among the various Task List categories (by using View.NextTask and View.PreviousTask)
- Object Browser
- Tip 5.32: You can use Ctrl+Alt+J to open the Object Browser window
- Tip 5.33: You can specify to show components in your solution only in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.34: You can create a custom list of components for the Object Browser
- Tip 5.35: You can add references to your solution directly from the Object Browser
- Tip 5.36: How to use navigate forward and back in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.37: You can create a keyboard shortcut for adding references to a solution from the Object Browser
- Tip 5.38: You can customize both your Object pane and Members pane in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.39: You can choose whether to show base types in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.40: You can hide or show hidden members and types in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.41: You can mark methods and types as Hidden so that they don’t appear in Microsoft IntelliSense or in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.42: What does Other mean in Show Other Members in Object Browser Settings?
- Tip 5.43: How to stop displaying all inherited members in the Object Browser Member pane
- Tip 5.44: You can show extension methods in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.45: What are the two primary means of searching for objects in the Object Browser?
- Tip 5.46: You can use F12 in the Object Browser to go to the definition of whatever is selected
- Tip 5.47: You can use a Find Symbol search (Shift+F12) in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.48: How to use type-ahead selection support in the Object Browser
- Tip 5.49: You can export all your Object Browser customizations in a .vssettings file
- Tip 5.50: Why the Object Browser has so many commands you can bind to (and how to create a keyboard shortcut to clear the search results)
- Tip 5.51: You can use the View.Forward (Alt+Right Arrow) and View.Backward (Alt+Left Arrow) global commands in the Object Browser
- Tool Windows
- 6. Discover More Tools for Your Design Time, Part 2
- Dialog Boxes
- Import And Export Settings
- Tip 6.1: How to find what development settings you last reset to
- Tip 6.2: How to reset your environment settings via Tools–Import And Export Settings
- Tip 6.3: What settings are contained in the New Project Dialog Preferred Language category
- Tip 6.4: You can add your own files to the Import And Export Settings–Reset page list
- Tip 6.5: What’s the difference between resetting settings and importing settings?
- Tip 6.6: You can save your current settings prior to doing an Import or Reset
- Tip 6.7: How Visual Studio automatically saves all your current settings every time you close it
- Tip 6.8: You can copy the full file path from the final wizard page when exporting settings
- Tip 6.9: You can use team settings to keep Visual Studio settings on different machines in sync
- External Tools
- Tip 6.10: You can run external tools from the IDE
- Tip 6.11: You can add your own external tools to the list
- Tip 6.12: You can rearrange the list of external tools and create mnemonics
- Tip 6.13: You can have your external tool’s text displayed in the Output window
- Tip 6.14: How the external tools tokens work
- Tip 6.15: You can prompt for arguments when you run an external tool
- Import And Export Settings
- Find Combo Box
- Find Combo Box Runs Commands
- Tip 6.16: How to have fun with the Find combo box
- Tip 6.17: You can press Ctrl+/ to run Visual Studio commands in the Find combo box
- Tip 6.18: How to open a file in the solution without using either a tool window or a dialog box
- Tip 6.19: You can set a breakpoint on a function from the Find combo box
- Find Combo Box Runs Commands
- Start Page
- Dialog Boxes
- 7. Know Your Solutions, and Other Project and Debugging Tweaks
- Project and Solution System
- Multitargeting
- Projects
- Tip 7.2: How to change the default new-project location
- Tip 7.3: You can toggle between small icons and large icons in the New Project dialog box
- Tip 7.4: You can use solution folders to hide projects
- Tip 7.5: You can create temp or "throw away" projects
- Tip 7.6: How to hide or show the Project Location Is Not Trusted message box
- Build Configurations
- Solution Explorer
- Tip 7.8: How to show the Miscellaneous Files project in the Solution Explorer
- Tip 7.9: There is type-ahead selection support in the Solution Explorer
- Tip 7.10: You can add a solution to a solution
- Tip 7.11: You can automatically perform a rename within an entire project when you rename a file in the Solution Explorer
- Tip 7.12: How to hide or show a solution in the Solution Explorer
- Tip 7.13: How to have the Solution Explorer always show (or not show) the file currently opened in the editor
- Debugging
- Tracepoints
- Breakpoints
- Tip 7.15: You can set a breakpoint by clicking the indicator margin
- Tip 7.16: You can press F9 to set a breakpoint on the current line
- Tip 7.17: You can use Ctrl+F9 to enable or disable a breakpoint
- Tip 7.18: You can set conditional breakpoints
- Tip 7.19: You can use breakpoint filters to break the right process
- Tip 7.20: You can press Ctrl+B to set a breakpoint at the desired function
- Tip 7.21: You can press Ctrl+Alt+B to open the Breakpoints window
- Tip 7.22: You can press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to delete all breakpoints
- Tip 7.23: You can disable the warning message before you delete all breakpoints
- DataTips
- Multiple Projects
- Compiling and Debugging Windows
- Error List
- Tip 7.28: You can use Ctrl+Shift+F12 to view the next error listed in the Error List
- Tip 7.29: How to customize your Error List view
- Tip 7.30: You can view an error’s documentation directly from the Error List
- Tip 7.31: You can do multicolumn sorting (secondary sort, and so forth) in both the Error List and the Task List
- Tip 7.32: You can bind the show Errors, Warnings, and Messages buttons to keyboard shortcuts
- Tip 7.33: How to show or prevent the Error List from appearing after a failed build
- Watch Window
- Immediate Window
- Project and Solution System
- A. Visual Studio Factoids
- Visual Studio Q&A
- Why is the executable file called devenv.exe instead of visualstudio.exe?
- Is the Visual Studio logo an infinity symbol or Möbius strip?
- What do the colors in the Visual Studio logo signify?
- Solution Explorer: Is it on the left side or right side of the IDE?
- Why is there a "Solution" concept?
- Why Are the Tool Window Tabs Shown at the Bottom of a Tool Window Group and the File Tabs Are at the Top of the File Tab Channel?
- Why is Common7 not Common8 or Common9?
- Visual Studio Q&A
- B. Tips on Blogging Tips
- Secret "Tip of the Day" Formula
- Tip 1: Focus on one specific action per tip
- Tip 2: Provide an image with each tip
- Tip 3: Reference a credible source
- Tip 4: Share and collect stories whenever possible
- Tip 5: Queue up your tips far, far in advance
- Tip 6: Set your tips to go live before dawn
- Tip 7: Use Windows Live Writer to write and queue your tips
- Secret "Tip of the Day" Formula
- C. Software Testing Tips
- D. How I Started Programming
- E. About the Author
- F. Additional Resources for Developers from Microsoft Press
- G. More Great Developer Resources
- Index
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You can visit the corresponding "Tip of the Day" series located on my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford to see additional commentary from readers.
Note
If you are looking for support regarding a keyboard shortcut, a missing piece of the user interface, or a command that doesn’t seem available, please refer to Tip 0.0: How to Look Up, Change, or Create Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts, Tip 6.1: How to find what development settings you last reset to, and Tip 6.2: How to reset your environment settings via Tools–Import And Export Settings. I wrote these tips using the General Development Settings, so it is possible that the development settings you are using have modified the UI slightly.
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