May 2005 - Posts
I love blog readers, especially when they let me know about these things. Season 1 is available now and Season 2 will be available June 7th. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/89960/dvd/ref=pd_serl_dvd/102-8508719-0428148 According to
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That’s pretty neat they may start serving health-centric lunches in the school systems back home-ish. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050527/D8ABN3S80.html One of my biggest complaints about my education (probably the top 3rd) is about the cafeteria
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Sweet I am a Defender-ship . I am fiercely protective of my friends and loved ones, and unforgiving of any who would hurt them. Speed and foresight are my strengths, at the cost of a little clumsiness. I'm most comfortable with a few friends, but sometimes
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Yesterday on the Lake Sammamish River trial was just perfect. Perfect temps, perfect breeze, perfect descent of some bug into my mouth – my unexpected protein snack. Just as I started passing a slower rider, I felt the immediate obedience of my bike kick
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I recently got this comment posted to my alternative ending to The Dark Tower. Major spoiler alert – don’t visit this link unless you already know what’s at the top of the dark tower (ie read the book first) or have no clue what i'm referring to. http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/articles/235981.aspx#413065
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A commonly-asked question. By default, the general development settings profile will set the Find and Replace Window to Floating. In Floating mode, you cannot dock the tool window. Simply right-click on the tool window titlebar and select “dockable”.
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Everyone I’ve talked to and every blog I’ve read (that I can find) has been either negative or mostly-negative. Is it because I’m a girl? I have no problem with episode one. Jar Jar whatever was supposed to be annoying, get over it people. I have no problem
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Just press Ctrl+k Ctrl+v, and the class view will pop up (if not already opened) and place focus in the search combo box for you. Note: it’s a known issue that you may have to have the class view already opened in Beta 2 to have the keyboard shortcut
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A few tool windows include access to their toolbars in their tab order (so you can press Tab and reach it), like the Properties Window, but most do not. Most of our tool windows use the MSOCommandBars for the toolbars which don’t allow you to tab to them.
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On the Find Results tool windows, there’s a toolbar icon called “Stops a background Find”, in case you need to cancel the find (or you’ve already found what you are looking for). Happy Visual Studio’ing!
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For Visual Studio 2005, we have a new tool window called the Code Definition Window. The Code Definition Window allows you to view the definition of a method without leaving your place in the editor. To view the definition, just place the cursor on the
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Make sure the VS install location is a part of your path. For example, “program files\microsoft visual Studio 8\common7\IDE” should be in your path environment variable. Then, it’s just Devenv.exe foo.txt Note this will open the file using the file window
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I love spring cleaning. Going through all the stuff I haven’t used in years and tossing it in the recycling bin (or the goodwill pile). I had kept all of my CS and Math books and notes (I was a double-major) in 6 boxes since graduation. The pile of notes,
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Did you know… Dragging and dropping a dll into VS 2005 will show it in Object Browser In VS 2005, you can drag and drop a dll into VS 2005 and, instead of opening it as a file, VS will show it in the Object Browser. Happy Visual Studio’ing!
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I meant to post this on my birthday 2 months ago. How time flies. Some people get so upset over their birthdays, getting a year older, hitting some milestone in time. What I get upset about is thinking, “oh great, I just did <insert landmark experience
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Sean talks more at http://blogs.msdn.com/vseditor/archive/2005/05/12/417011.aspx Quick summary: To avoid issue – try not to set tool windows to auto-hide. Experiencing issue? – activate the auto-hiding tool window and close it I personally haven’t hit
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For VB, it is found at Tools – Options – Text Editor – Basic – VB Specific – Enter outlining mode when files open. For C#, it is found at Tools – Options – Text Editor – C# - Advanced - Enter outlining mode when files open. For C/C++, it is found at Tools
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In VS 2005, go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – File Extension page. Here you can map a file extension to one of the editors included with your Visual Studio SKU. There is also an option to map files without extensions to a specific editor. Happy Visual
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This tip is for VS 2005. You can search the entire .NET Framework using the Object Browser. By default, the Browse combo box will be set to “All Components” which includes the .NET Framework. You'll see a list of all components available on the left-hand
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Have you ever arrowed up or down within a method body only to find the cursor jump to the beginning of the line? Ever wanted the cursor to move to the correct indentation is whenever you arrow up and down? C# has implemented virtual tabs, so when you
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I find using the Recording Macro great for Learning more about our object model and DTE Getting a code snippet for a larger macro I want to write Doing a single action to generate the macro code for it, and then surrounding it within a loop. Now I can
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Ever been typing in the editor, and for whatever reason, the text isn’t indented properly on the line? Instead of manually pressing backspace or tab for a particular line (or selection), just press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D. For larger files, you might just want
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Today's Tip of the Day comes from Dylan ... In my short time as a COM programmer, I've found that AddRef/Release issues are some of the toughest, tedious, and difficult problems to track down. For those of you not too familiar with COM programming, I'll
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The keyboard shortcut to show smart tags in the editor is Shift+Alt+F10. Whenever the smart tag glyph appears, press Shift+Alt+F10. This will invoke the smart tag just as if you clicked on it. Happy Visual Studio’ing!
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