Sara Ford's Weblog

There are two ways to split the current window: From the Menu Bar, go to Window – Split . Using the mouse, grab the splitter control found directly above the document scrollbar But the split command only works horizontally.  If you need to split...

A simple, but very powerful, little feature, especially when you deal with white space as much as I did when I tested the editor.  The first time I saw one of our developers using it, I thought, “Yuck!”  But now I’m addicted, even when I’m not...

Did you know that Visual Studio offers two different selection models Stream and Box? Stream selection is what everyone is familiar with using Shift+Arrow Key.  Box selection allows you to manually select columns and lines at the same time. ...

I didn’t know about incremental search until someone showed me.  Now I can’t live without it.  Press Ctrl+I Start typing the text you are searching for.  note: you’ll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the current search...

It’s that time again… but notice this time it is “tip of the day .”  That’s right.  For Visual Studio 2008, I’m going to attempt to post a tip every day of the work week. Yeah, tip of the day doesn’t work on weekends. =) The motivation behind...

On our one-year anniversary of our power toys release, I gave a Microsoft Engineering Excellence Talk on the lessons we learned the hard way “going open,” to motivate other teams to explore all the way they can embrace their communities, including sharing...

This would be a good time to recap how i am 3 for 3 getting injured whenever I leave Redmond to do something Microsoft-related Go to Miss State as a returning-alumni visiting speaker:  torn shoulder blade from running through SeaTac airport trying...