Visual Studio Editor Blog

I'm working on posting the XSD and will update this post to link to it once I've found a place that I can put it. CodeSnippet The <CodeSnippet> tag is the root element for the schema. It has a format attribute which specifies the schema version...

One of my favorite new features in Whidbey is Code Snippets. Code snippets are xml files stored on your machine that allow you to insert chunks of predefined code and then move quickly between common places that need to be filled in with values relevant...

Several people have been reporting problems on MSDN Product Feedback with Visual Studio Beta 2 in which the Editor stops responding to most commands but still allows typing. The good news is that we have identified a fix for the issue, we know how to...

Hi everyone, My name is Dylan Lingelbach and I am a new hire working in the Editor group. I am just getting my feet wet right now, so I don't have an area I own just yet, but I am starting to get experience in a few different areas of the editor. I am...

In my last tutorial, I talked about some basic fundamentals. Let's move on to narrowing down search scope some more. Recall that previously, I had introduced: < - Matches beginning of a word > - Matches end of a word Now, let's introduce...

My name is Fiona Fung and I'm a developer with the VS Core Editor team. I own the Find & Replace and File Extension Mapping functionality in Whidbey. I graduated from the University of Toronto in 2003. I was an intern with Microsoft in 2001. It...

Regular Expressions is a great way to find what you're looking for. Unfortunately, it can be also be quite daunting for a beginner who's unsure where to start. Hence I started this post for tips and tricks of using Regular Expressions with Find &...

In answering some blog posts, I mentioned tagged expressions. I thought I'd talk about them now before going on to other regular expression syntax. Tagged expressions are useful for doing replacements in a regular expression search. When you tag an...

I'd like to get your feedback on a design change that we are implementing for the Beta 2 release of VS 2005. In Beta 1, we introduced the Code Definition Window for the C#, J# and VC languages. The current view is a read-only view of the definition of...

If you use documentation created by Build Comment Web Pages in Visual Studio 2003, you will experience problems viewing the documentation after upgrading to Windows XP SP2. Currently, you can download the release candidate for testing purposes here: http...

I've got good news! Consolas, a cleartype font designed specifically for to make code more readable is now available for download for users of Visual Studio 2005 from the Microsoft Download Center . One important thing about Consolas is that it will...

Since VS 2010 Beta1 became publicly available last week, the Editor team has heard from quite a few users who miss box selection (aka column selection, block selection, or rectangular selection). Yes, it’s missing from the beta, but the good news is that...

The Editor team wants to build the best product possible, and we need your help! This week, the team would like to ask for direct feedback on how you use tab size and indent size. Tab size is the amount of space each tab occupies, while indent size is...

Someone recently asked me a regular expression query and I thought it was interesting and post it as an example here. They wanted to find all occurances of the following style of XML: <foobar> < property = "blah" /> </foobar> And they...

I hope that everyone has had a chance to download Beta 2 of Whidbey as there have been many improvements since Beta 1. If not, you can download it here: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/ . Two of the features that we've improved since Beta...

I know that quite a few people are running into an issue where any edition Visual Studio 2008 can crash when users open the find dialog if they are running on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server. There's a patch available for Microsoft Support. You...

I’d like to welcome you to the VS Core Editor Team’s blog! First allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sean Laberee and I’m a Program Manager with this team. I work on the Core Editor, Find, Object Browser and Class View. I...

Every developer knows that navigating code is vital to happy and productive coding. We’ve added several new features for code search and navigation in Visual Studio 2010, including Navigate To and an improved Call Hierarchy, to complement search staples...

I've been getting this question a lot in the past few weeks, so I've decided this would make a quick blog post. In Visual Studio 2005, we've added the ability to customize many of the context menus that you see in the product. Here's how: Go To Tools...

We have released a new powertoy Snippy . It is a Code Snippet editor that will allow you to create new code snippets or modify existing ones. Please let us know if you have any problems installing or using it. There are two versions posted, one for the...

Guidelines are visible column indicators for the VS Editor. For more info on how to enable them, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2004/11/15/257953.aspx Thanks, - sara

You may have seen a glimpse of the Visual Studio 2010 editor in the past couple of months, but you've never seen it look like this! At VSLive! in San Francisco last week, Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander unveiled a completely new UI for Visual...

To complete the VS 2010 Editor’s new look, we’re updating the default font to 10-pt Consolas! It’s a fixed-width font that Microsoft’s typography experts designed specifically for developers, so it’s great for reading and writing code. Consolas also has...

In response to the large number of requests, the Editor team added Emacs and Brief emulations in Visual Studio 2005. These features are available in the Beta 1 but it is not obvious how to turn them on in the Beta. We are working on fixing this for Beta...

Hi VSEditor readers, I’m Sara Ford . I’ve been at Microsoft and on the Visual Studio testing team for 3 years now. I just moved to the Editor / Code Navigation team from the Core IDE team where I’ve owned Window Management . I’m going to be testing the...