15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

Meni — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:58:13 GMT

Thank you! I used this to disable it.

This actually takes a LONG time to open on my machine.

Now it opens immediately!

Thanks.

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re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

User — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:41:55 GMT

The other one feature is Auto restart

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BurningXoul — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:40:35 GMT

very cool, thanks.

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

Nikunj Bhatt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:20:47 GMT

I m agree with Chris McGrath.

This feature can be helpful if the thumbnail preview shows lines around the cursor in the currently selected file preview.

btw, i want to suggest a feature for visual basic and c#.

i dont know where to suggest but i m giving it here as Paul is a principal developer and he can pass my suggestion to the project leader and other concerning authorities..

suggestion is for "With...End With" statement block.

v can not create a "With" block inside a "With" block, means "With" block can not b nested, presently.

my suggestion is to give a facility to (automatically) create a temporary variable to point to the object related with the "With" block therefore it can b nested as following:

With Form1 as a

With DataGridView1.Rows(index) as b

a.Width = 300

a.Height = 400

a.Title = "Form1"

b.Cells(0).Value = "abc"

b.Cells(1).Value = "xyz"

b.Cells(2).Value = "pqr"

End With

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

Alexandre Grigoriev — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:40:33 GMT

On the one hand, this feature is not very useable, and is mostly an eye candy. On the other hand, if it's slow on the particular GPU, it's very likely that the users suffer with many other applications. Maybe the users have disabled some visual candies to make the explorer run smoother. You could check if a particular visual effect is disabled.

But come to think about it, how long does it take to paint a page of text into a memory bitmap, and shrink it to a thumbnail size? Does it *really* require a GPU? My old 2GHz laptop (probably not much capable of running even Win7) doesn't have a problem with this feature of VS2008, under XP. Is memory drawing much slower now? Maybe you just implemented it wrong?

Oh, and the new help sucks.

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

Alin Constantin - MSFT — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:38:02 GMT

@LadyM, Joe and those who set the registry value but it didn't appear to work:

Note that to see document and toolwindows thumbnails you may also need to Enable rich client visual experience from Visual Studio –> Tools –> Options –> Environment -> General page:

- Uncheck "Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance"

- Check "Enable rich client experience" (which should become enabled after unchecking the first option)

On low-performance computers (e.g. netbooks) and in RemoteDesktop sessions the visual experience is automatically set to low values to maximize the performance (no gradients, background texture, animations, thumbnail images, etc) so you need to override these settings to see the toolwindow thumbnails in IDE Navigator window.

(Also, make sure you have restarted Visual Studio after setting the registry setting to make sure the IDE reads the new value)

Alin

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

preston — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:34:36 GMT

LadyM, this extension will enable it for you: visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/.../d491911d-97f3-4cf6-87b0-6a2882120acf

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

ladyM — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:15:38 GMT

this doesn't work ;(

registry entry is there but no thumbs on ctrl+tab...

re: 15 minute blog post: A Hidden Feature in Visual Studio 2010

Chris McGrath — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:37:11 GMT

I think Jon hit it on the head.

However, I think it could be made to be useful, if instead of showing the whole document it showed the 5-10 lines closest to your cursor (and only the first x characters of the lines) that would be useful. Maybe even let it automatically scroll a few lines.