'Alt Tab' for Visual Studio

Brandon Turner — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:03:58 GMT

Alt+tab is a common operation for Windows users. Once a user masters the skill they can navigate between windows quickly. Visual Studio has something similar but not with the same shortcut keys. Crtl+Tab will bring up the window I show below and allow you navigate your windows quickly, faster then using the tabs when you have more then fit into the tab bar.

Checking Return Values Without Saving Them

Brandon Turner — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Often times I will be debugging some code and I want to see a return value of a function; but the value of the function is not saved into a variable for one reason or another.

In the simplest form you can see this scenario in the following code:

   1:  using System;

   2:  using System.Collections.Generic;

   3:  using System.Linq;

   4:  using System.Text;

5:

   6:  namespace Test

   7:  {

   8:      class Program

   9:      {

  10:          static int Foo()

  11:          {

  12:              return 4;

  13:          }

14:

  15:          static void Main(string[] args)

  16:          {

  17:              Foo();

  18:          }

  19:      }

  20:  }

If I want to see the value that is returned from the function call to Foo(), I can start by setting a breakpoint on line 18. Then I go to the menu bar and follow the path 'Debug'->'Windows'->'Registers'. You can see that the EAX register will contain the return value even though I didn't save the return value to a variable.

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'Alt Tab' for Visual Studio

Checking Return Values Without Saving Them