Last week I blogged about my challenge to do 101 Visual Studio Tips in just 55 minutes, and if I succeed, everyone in the audience gets a signed copy of my Visual Studio Tips book. Let’s just say I couldn’t have planned for better drama at the end. This blog post has moved to http:...

I’ve been known to talk fast when I’m excited in my Visual Studio presentations, and maybe even a little too fast. But what if I didn’t try to slow down? What if I actually tried to talk as fast as possible? In a race against time, I will attempt to demo 101 Visual Studio Tips in...

Zain Naboulsi, a Developer Evangelist, has started the Tip of the Day series for Visual Studio 2010. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2010/01/11/visual-studio-2010-tip-of-the-day-returns/

Going through my folder of my blog “contact me” emails, I came across this question. I like tricking Visual Studio into doing things, so I thought I’d share. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2009/08/27/how-to-trick-visual-studio-to-not-show-line-numbers-for-blank-lines...

Petition is here: http://twtpoll.com/iuz95p and closes Aug 5. When I was 3 years old, I invented the “Koala bear game.” You hide the Koala bear behind your back, then run up to the adults asking them “guess what i’ve got behind my back?” I played night after night after night, until I discovered this...

Head over to Scott Cate’s blog to relive the Tip of the Day series, but with videos this time. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2009/01/23/relive-the-tip-of-the-day-series-in-video-with-scott-cate/

‘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 a .zip file, so you’ll need to extract these files...

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.net/2008/12/12/did-you-know-you-can-narrow-search...

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/

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 moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/10/did-you-know...

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 post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/12/09...

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-you-know-you-can-use-f1-to-get-help-anywhere-even...

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-your-favorite-vs-settings-372/

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.net/2008/12/04/did-you-know-how-to-remove-items...

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/

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/2008/12/02/did-you-know-you-can-use-ctrlpgup-and-ctrlpgdn...

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-in-the-solution-explorer-to-open-the-project-properties...

I added the exclamation point, because I never knew this. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/11/28/did-you-know-theres-is-a-go-to-definition-navigation-stack-367/

There’s a built-in command line switch devenv.exe /log to log Visual Studio activity, e.g. which packages got loaded, etc. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/11/27/did-you-know-theres-a-way-to-have-visual-studio-log-its-activity-for-troubleshooting-366/

This feature is helpful when you need a common file shared among projects, like a bitmap, readme, set of common tools and utilities, etc. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/11/26/did-you-know-how-to-add-a-linked-item-to-a-project-365/

Starting in Visual Studio 2005, you’ll find the Visual Studio Image Library, a zip file that contains over a 1000 images to create applications that have a consistent UI look and feel to Windows, Office, and Visual Studio. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/11/25/did-you-know...