June 2007 - Posts

Useful IE Shortcuts
27 June 07 02:11 PM | donovani | 3 Comments   

Ones I use all the time are: Alt-D Moves focus to address bar and selects the current location Ctrl-W Closes the current window/tab Ctrl-E Moves focus to the search box Ctrl-Q Thumbnail view of all open tabs Ctrl=(1-8) Moves to the corresponding tab (ie, Read More...

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TFS + Visual Studio = Better Together
21 June 07 10:24 AM | donovani | 0 Comments   

In a world where TFS and Visual Studio work together, I’d like to see the IDE make use of more of this meta information it has available on the server. For instance, let’s assume my checkins have been granular. If I am fixing a defect in a particular Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio

Virtual Files in Visual Studio
20 June 07 10:01 AM | donovani | 0 Comments   

I’d like to see the idea of virtual files be added to the Visual Studio IDE. By this, I mean being able to easily define and assign custom tags to members. A dockable window or top-level menu shows all tags defined in this solution and selecting one or Read More...

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UPNP == Shared Gaming?
19 June 07 02:20 PM | donovani | 1 Comments   

UPNP media servers like TVersity allow some degree of two-way communication between server and client. Could this infrastructure be used to create simple games that run across devices (say like a Skip Bo game played on my son’s Wii when he's vacationing Read More...

Filed under: Home Media Server, Gaming

Smarter Intellisense
19 June 07 01:41 PM | donovani | 3 Comments   

While I'm on the topic of improvements I'd like to see done to Visual Studio, how about smarter Intellisense? For example: Why doesn't VisualStudio suggest the arguments for you when you have local variables with matching names? Read More...

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Persistent Notes
19 June 07 01:11 PM | donovani | 0 Comments   

I'd like to have the ability to attach “notes” to the code that bubble up and down (for example, RicoM ’s perf cost estimate notes). These notes are a special comment tag in the xml documentation for a method. They automatically appear as a distinctly Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio

Improved Visual Studio Code Navigation
19 June 07 11:56 AM | donovani | 3 Comments   

An area I'd like to see improved in a future release of VS is around code navigation. Specifically, I'd like to see the following suggested improvement: When the developer enters a method in the active code window, an optional set of dockable windows Read More...

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about:blank
07 June 07 05:58 PM | donovani | 1 Comments   

I like being able to specify multiple home pages that automatically load when I launch IE, but I hate waiting on them to load. I went back and forth on this until it finally dawned on me to set the first home page to about:blank. Now when I start IE, Read More...

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