‘Cause nothing lasts forever… even cold November rain This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/19/did-you-know-that-todays-tip-on-msinfo32-exe-ends-the-series-382/

This is really a repost from 3 (and even 4) years ago when Tip of the Day was just a weekly series. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/18/did-you-know-how-to-optimize-visual-studio-for-multi-monitors-381/

A while back, when I was collecting Visual Studio tips, the “Open Source” command was pointed out to me. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/17/did-you-know-there-is-an-open-source-command-in-visual-studio-380/

This tip is specific for Visual Studio 2008. You can easily find the samples that have been installed for Visual Studio by going to Help-Samples. Then in the browser, click on the local Samples folder link. As the message box states, the samples are in...

I feel obligated to talk about Dynamic Help. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/15/did-you-know-how-to-turn-on-or-off-dynamic-help-378/

If you do a search for the phrase “how to create a custom winform control” using the default options in the General Development Environment, you’ll get back 500 results, as shown below. This blog post has moved to http://saraford...

Today’s tip is just a collection of some tweaks you can make to your search results. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/11/did-you-know-how-to-tweak-your-search-results-376/

Last week, I spoke at the Engineering Excellence / Trustworthy Computing Forum to Microsoft employees at the Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen about CodePlex. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/10/codeplex-in-denmark-and...

According to my notes (taken on July 11, 2007, so it’s been a while), you should be able to save your search filters too, so I’m wondering if this is a “just me” situation or if this is working for others. This blog post has...

If you bring up a help page by pressing F1, doing a search, filtering via the Index, or any other method that doesn’t involve the Contents tool window, you’ll notice the Contents window will be out of sync with the current page. This blog...

Once upon a time, a computer programmer drowned at sea. Many <insert occupation here> were on the beach. They heard the screams of “F1 F1”, but no one understood… This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/08/did...

Let’s say you want Visual Studio to have different window layout at the snap of your fingers. Or even better, you want to This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/05/did-you-know-you-can-create-toolbar-buttons-to-quickly-toggle...

Update: i've fixed the registry key for the recent files. ironically in my VS Tips talk today in Denmark, in the handout, i had a typo in the handout where I put "Recent" instead "Project" for the project MRU. This blog post has moved to http://saraford...

The macro below will list out all of your current keybindings in the Output Window. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/03/did-you-know-theres-a-macro-for-listing-out-all-the-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio-370/

I do most of my blogging about CodePlex over on the CodePlex team blog , but every now and then there’s something cool I want to share over here with you all. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/02/video-from-codeplex-town...

You can navigate among the Project Properties windows by using Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn. Why? because the project properties window is obeying the Window.PreviousTab and Window.NextTab commands. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12...

This was a user-submitted tip from back in May 2008. I really do read all incoming email, but it just takes me a while to respond. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/01/did-you-know-you-can-double-click-on-the-properties-folder...