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The top 10 most visited tips

Today’s post marks the 100th Tip on the Tip of the Week!  To celebrate the occasion, let’s recap our top 10 most visited* tips.

#10 - How to bind Keyboard Shortcuts to commands 

#9 - How to do column selection

#8 - What C# books to read

#7 - How to optimize Visual Studio for Multi-Monitor setups

#6 - How to save your favorite window layouts in VS .NET 2003

#5 - Type-ahead selection works in Solution Explorer

#4 - Use Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow to quickly access all your open files

#3 - Use Ctrl-K Ctrl-C to comment selection and Ctrl-K Ctrl-U to uncomment selection

#2 - How to use Full Screen Mode

And the most visited Tip on Tip of the Week…

#1 - How to have fun with the Find Combo box

Prior to starting the Tip of the Week, I wrote this entry that would have blown all of these out of the water.

Guidelines – a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor

*most visited = number of web hits (how many people visited the website through a web browser) + RSS hits (how many people read the entry via a RSS reader)

Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:10 PM by saraford

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Jason Haley said:

# February 1, 2006 7:33 PM

Dev Emporium said:

Microsoft's Sara Ford celebrated her 100th "Tip of the Week" a couple of weeks ago by publishing a list...
# February 20, 2006 1:55 PM

Dave Mengyan said:

I recently installed Visual Studio 2005 (Professional) but mistakenly selected VB Developer instead of Web Developer in the initial set-up.

Do you have any idea how this can be fixed?  I have searched around for an answer but I've had absolutely no luck.

Dave
elevenx@hotmail.com
# March 14, 2006 11:11 AM

saraford said:

Go to Tools - Import Export Settings, choose to Reset Settings, and select the Web Developer.  This will reset the environment just as if you had selected Web Developer from the First-Launch Dialog.

-sara
# March 14, 2006 11:54 AM
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