October 2007 - Posts
Let's say you are searching for some text, and you know about F3 and Shift+F3 , so you want the Ctrl+F Quick Find or the Ctrl+H Quick Replace window to disappear after the first search. Go to Tools - Options - Environment - Find and Replace page, and
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Press Ctrl+H to pop up the Quick Replace window. The command is Edit.Replace, in case your keybindings are different. You'll need to press the Replace or Replace All button to invoke the find and replace. Additionally, you can customize your find and
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It's funny, when i was writing up this tip, i started at the Find and Replace window trying to figure out where the option was to bookmark all of the results. Finally, it jumped out at me. =) If you hit Bookmark All instead of Find Next, bookmarks will
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Tomorrow, I'm going to swing by http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com to watch my fellow Microsofties Beth Massi (VB Community) and Mahesh Prakriya (IronPython) give presentations. Both are *excellent* presenters and I highly recommend attending one of
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Just select some text (or just have the cursor on the word you wish to search for) and press Ctrl+F3. Ctrl+Shift+F3 will do a reverse search. Note that a Ctrl+F3 search uses the following options: is case sensitive searches hidden text allows for partial
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Obviously, you can press the Find Next button on the Find and Replace window, but you can also press F3 to search for the next instance and Shfit+F3 searches for the previous instance of the search string. Technorati tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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When doing a quick find, you can select the scope of your search, including the current code block, current document, all open documents, current project, and entire solution. Just press Ctrl+F to open the Quick Find window, and drop down the Look in
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By pressing Ctrl+F, you can bring up the Find and Replace tool window. You can then expand the Find options chevron control and select Search hidden text . This is usually the first option I always set (or ensure is set). Technorati tags: VS2005Tip ,
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The standard keyboard shortcut for finding text in most applications is Ctrl+F . In Visual Studio, this kicks off a Quick Find in the current document. Quick Find will pre-populate the find what text with whatever text is selected in the editor or the
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Whenever you can invoke statement completion, you can also execute the Edit.CompleteWord command. This command will complete a word that is partially complete with no other possibilities. And if there are other multiple possibilities, the command will
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Type in the method name, like Console.WriteLine, then press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+I to invoke Quick Info on a function. The command is Edit.QuickInfo, in case your keybindings are different. Technorati tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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Whenever parameter info is displayed, you can copy or paste this information. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P to paste the default parameter names directly into the function. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C to copy the info for some other line (see the commented line in
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Yesterday, my Channel 9 interview went live that we did about a month ago on Blogging and Katrina (2 years in review), and of course, women in technology. You'll note that I'm still talking about the power toys stuff, because my transition to the CodePlex
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Press Ctrl+Shift+Space to display the parameter info. The command is Edit.ParameterInfo, in case you need to check the keybindings. To iterate through the possible parameters, press the down arrow to go to the next and up arrow to go to the previous.
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I'm very excited to announce that today is my first day as the Program Manager for CodePlex , Microsoft's open source project hosting website!! So yes, you can send feature requests directly to me now (or, more preferably, continue to use the site). This
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Go to Tools - Options - Environment - Fonts and Colors , and under Show Settings For select Editor Tooltip . Then you can customize the font and font size. Technorati tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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Once statement completion is up, press Alt+. to move to the All tab and Alt+, to move to the Common tab. Technorati tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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all about the simple things in life... Yep, you can resize the statement completion dialog box from any direction. Note max height is limited to 1/3 of screen size although width is resizable, only height is persisted Technorati tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Ti
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Go to Tools - Options - Fonts and Colors and change Show Settings For to Statement Completion. Now you can modify the font and font size. This is the statement completion box at font size 12. Technorati tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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In the default general development settings, the keyboard shortcut to invoke statement completion is Ctrl+J. The keyboard shortcut is bound to Edit.ListMembers, so you may need to confirm what your keyboard shortcut is. In the Text Editor Toolbar, you
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Right-click anywhere on any toolbar or toolbar region to bring up the context menu , and select Customize. In the lower left-hand corner, select Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips . Now when you hover over a command, you'll see the keyboard shortcut in
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There's a Bookmark Tool Window that allows you to organize and arrange your bookmarks. You can create folders and store bookmarks within them. Once you've organized your bookmarks, you can use similar bookmark navigation keyboard shortcuts to navigate
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Press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K to toggle a bookmark. This command is bound to Edit.ToggleBookmark, if your keybindings are different. Press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+N (Edit.NextBookmark) to navigate to the next bookmark. Press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+P (Edit.PreviousBookmark) to navigate
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In VS 2005, we introduced Emacs and Brief emulations into the editor. Go to Tools - Options - Environment - Keyboard , and then drop down the Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme: Choose either Brief or Emacs. There's nothing like learning
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This is enabled by default for most editors, but just in case you're not able to click on a URL, here's what you do. Go to Tools - Options - Text Editor - All Languages - General , and click on Enable single-click URL navigation . Technorati tags: VS2005Tip
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For me, this is yet another one of those, "why can't I ever remember this tip?! It would save me so much time! argh!" You can cycle through the past 20 items you've either cut or copied onto the clipboard via Ctrl+Shift+V. Pretty cool, huh? I didn't know
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