June 2005 - Posts
In Visual Studio .NET 2003, the default was for the help system to appear within Visual Studio. We’ve changed it in Whidbey to appear externally from Visual Studio. This is extremely useful for multi-monitor setups. If you want to get the help system
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In Beta2 dexplorer, you’ll notice in an Ask a Question button on the standard toolbar. Clicking this button takes you to a page that searches the MSDN Forums . You can also use the “Check Question Status” button located next to the Ask a Question button
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Once you have created a set of help doc and search favorites , you can now share them among friends or share them across machines. In Visual Studio, go to Tools – Options – Import / Export Settings, and choose Export. On the Choose Settings to Export
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In Visual Studio .NET 2003, your help docs were saved to your IE Favorites. In Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, your help docs are now saved to their own VS Help Topics Favorites. To save a topic: Bring up your favorite help topic in dexplorer On the standard
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In Beta 2, on the Search page, you can sort by the following: Rank Source Contains Code Locale The Sort By combo box is located on the center of the page, just above the search results. There’s also toolbar button next to it that allows you view in ascending
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This tip comes from Elona on the Visual Studio User Education team . http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/archive/2005/05.aspx Highlights Use the Index There’s still too much in the Index? Use a filter Use the advanced search of your favorite search engine to
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In Visual Studio 2005 Help Search page, you’ll see a list of search provides listed on the right-hand side. You can adjust this list by going to Tools - Options - Help - Online. You can choose who they are ordered, which Codezone Communities to use, and
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What is a VPAT? Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1998 provides strict accessibility standards that any technology must strive to meet before the U.S. federal government can consider purchasing it. As such, federal IT purchasers must conduct market
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I reread The Dark Tower last week. The book wouldn’t stop staring at me from across the room for weeks. Finally, I broke down and cracked it open, wondering why I was doing this to myself. Only click here if you've read the books; otherwise, don't blame
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Under Edit – Bookmarks, you’ll see a disabled “Add Task List Shortcut” menu item. This menu item becomes available whenever the task list is opened (and you’re in a project). Bring up the Task List – View – Other Windows – Task List (or Ctrl+\, Ctrl+T
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Bread Givers – from the back cover “Sara Smolinsky was the daughter…” My maiden name is “Smolensky”, but close enough. At my UMass internship many years ago, I meet this one student in the dorm who was really taken aback by my name. She keeps asking me
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Under Tools – Options – Environment – Document, there are the following options Show Miscellaneous files in Solution Explorer <n> items saved in the Miscellaneous Files project Show Miscellaneous files in Solution Explorer This option allows you
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I asked around on the C# team what they recommend reading... Getting started Anders, Scott & Peter - The C# Programming Language Eric Gunnerson - A Programmer's Introduction to C# Other favorites Troelson - C# and the .NET platform (Apress) Liberty
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We have this new feature in Whidbey called Zero-Impact Projects. It allows you to create projects without saving anything on disk. I used this all the time as a QA folk, because we’re constantly creating and discarding projects when doing our testing.
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In Whidbey, we have a feature called How Do I. I’ve explained it on this other post . And there are some channel 9 videos of Scott, the original Program Manager of the feature, explaining How Do I . It’s extremely easy to create your own. Step 1 Create
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Holy cow! Batman Begins far exceeded my expectations. Well, maybe my expectations were low to begin with after the last 3 movies. But still, this was truly the best movie I’ve seen in years. Finally, we have a batman movie that allows Alfred to have a
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(New Whidbey Feature). You have a task in mind, but don’t know how to do it. How Do I allows you to browse through topics to find the one related to your current task. Let’s say I’m new to the Visual Basic .NET language and I need to learn how to declare
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Once upon a time, a computer programmer drowned at sea. Many <insert occupation here> were on the beach. They heard the screams of “F1 F1”, but no one understood… F1 can take you to a help topic based on the context of what you are currently doing.
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http://www.cascadejugglers.org/festival/index.shtml I started juggling (and doing balloon sculpting) when I was 14. Got a book from the library and went from there. I’m really good with 3 juggling balls and decent enough with 4. I have always wanted to
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If you have a suggestion, send it my way ! It doesn’t have to be a blog entry, just send the tips and tricks to me, and I’ll polish them up. Happy Visual Studio’ing!
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In Whidbey, there are four commands that involve converting spaces to tabs and vice versa Edit – Advanced - Tabify Selected Lines – Replaces the leading whitespace on a line that contains the selection with tabs. Doesn’t matter whether the leading whitespace
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Gretchen is my hero. You see, I don’t take risks. I’m too afraid to ride my bicycle on the side of the road anymore. I hate gambling at a casino, especially when it is someone else’s money. I play it safe, analyze the situation, and then decide what I’ll
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In Whidbey, we’ve split the Task List into two parts: 1. Error List –for errors and warnings 2. Task List –for user tasks and todo With the task list, you’ll be able to track user tasks – just click on the “Create User Task” button on the toolbar and
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This tip is for both Everett and Whidbey. I’ve seen a lot of presentations, and I’ve given a lot of presentations that involved writing code. It's distracting from the presentation to watch the presenter type 10-15 lines of code, make a typo, compile,
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Below is something I’ve been working on for a while now, putting all of my thoughts regarding MSAA testing down onto paper. Consider this the grand specification for MsaaVerify. Provided i had enough time, this is everything i wanted to implement in MsaaVerify.
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Most of what I have been reading lately on the blogosphere is about going to Orlando and Tech Ed. I wish I could go to Tech Ed. =( It is in Orlando. It is 55 degrees and overcast right now in Seattle I love talking to customer about Visual Studio. I never
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