Did you know... You can run Visual Studio commands with arguments from the command window? - #087
After the past several weeks of Find tips (i knew i would have a few tips, just not nearly a month's worth!), let's change things up a bit and talk about the command window.
Press Ctrl+Alt+A to open the command window. Check the keybinding for View.CommandWindow if your keybindings are different. Also available from the View - Other Windows - Command Window. Now you can run various Visual Studio commands without having to go through the menus.
Examples:
- >File.Open c:\samples\foo.txt //Open a file without going through the menu.
- >Help vs.commandwindow //open a help topic directly
- >? i // get the contents of the variable i
- >? i = 10 // set the contents of the variable i
View the following help topic for a list of commonly-used commands that include arguments in VS 2005. Also available in VS 2008 documentation.
Auto-completion is also provided for both the commands and their corresponding arguments.
You can also get auto-completion for arguments.
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