Scott Cate CloudDB.com Session Code: DTL326
Microsoft Visual Studio Tips/Tricks DTL326 This session is built to enhance your Visual Studio experience! Keyboard shortcuts, macros, layouts, fonts, tools, and external utilities are all very powerful and underused features of Visual Studio. This session aims to make you more productive in Visual Studio. Bring your pen and pad because you'll definitely want to take (minor) notes!
Tricks are Numbered and Online History Just write down or remember your favorite tip numbers Sara Ford Original 384 tips Community Goal Add video to all 384 tips
How to Use Incremental Search Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to do Box/Column Select Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Not Copy a Blank Line Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Cycle the Clipboard Ring Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Drive Visual Studio From Find Box Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Hide the Start Page on VS Start Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Copy File Path / Open File Folder Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
Create Temp/Throw Away Projects/Files Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to add Vertical Guides to the Editor Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
Add code snippets in Toolbox/General Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
Insert a Code Snippet with Tab Tab Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Use TraceBreakPoints Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to: Increase/Decrease Font Size Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Disable the Exception Assistant Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Use the XML Visualizer Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
Sort File Tabs by Most Recent First Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Edit {cs|vb}proj file live in Studio Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
Bring in “Using” {NameSpace} Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
How to Display Custom Search Results Original Sara Ford Blog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
Use a Macro to Quickly Switch Profiles Original Sara Ford Bog Post: Scott Cate Video Post:
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PreEmptive Solutions / Dotfuscator
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