January 2008 - Posts
The tool windows you open and visit are saved in a MRU (Most-Recently Used) list. So, you can navigate among all the various opened tool windows in the Shell using Alt+F7 for next and Shift+Alt+F7 for previous. Technorati Tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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I had to do some research to remember how to do this, but now we'll all know. Three cheers for blogs. Open the Tools - Customize menu . Now select the Toolbars tab , and check the Context Menu Look up at the toolbar section of VS. Notice anything different?
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This is one of those, "whoa... i never knew this!" until someone shows you how to do it. Go to Tools - Customize. Now the Customize dialog box pops up. Note that this is a semi-modal dialog (my made-up term, although there's probably a real term for it
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It's funny to read blog posts from a year ago, like my OSCON 2008 Here I come... I hope! Well, it is that time of year again for OSCON submissions, thinkweek papers, and LE MARDI GRAS!! I've submitted two talks for OSCON 2008: Towards a stronger
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My sincere thanks to Keith Elder who has been doing the lion's share of the work to put together this geek dinner. He's got the details on his blog, including who has RSVP'ed thus far. Contact Keith if you're in the area and want to attend.
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Right-click anywhere on the toolbar area, either on a toolbar itself or in the unused portion of the toolbar space. You'll be presented with a context menu of all available toolbars. Click on any toolbar to have it appear. Note that all buttons may be
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Yep, we're in the "did you know..." toolbars series. Like yesterday's tip focused on the grip control on the far left-end of a toolbar, today's tip focuses on the chevron control located on the far right-end of a toolbar. Click on the chevron control
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First, thanks to Chris Woodruff who tirelessly hosted podcast after podcast after podcast the entire 3 days. Thanks again Chris for doing a podcast with me! And also my thanks to Michael Kimsal for hosting the open source open space podcast
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We had a team morale event today in Seattle at Kaspars . It was so much fun. We all got into small groups to follow a recipe for one of the courses, under Kaspar's watch. My group did the salad and spring rolls (i've always wanted to
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First, you'll want to put the mouse over the grip control. You'll notice that the mouse control changes to a 4-directional pointer. Then hold the primary mouse button down and drag the toolbar out. It'll pop out into a floating state, as illustrated below.
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At CodeMash 2008 , I had an incredible opportunity to meet 1-1 with many various users of CodePlex, from those who run projects to those who download them. Thanks to everyone for their valuable input and making the time to discuss their ideas with
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There are four different window layout states Design view – what you see when you launch Visual Studio and do your editing Full screen – Toggled by Shift+Alt+Enter in the general development settings. Also found via View - Full screen . The command is
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Ken Levy got me a set of super.fi Ultimate Ears earphones a while back to try out. At first, I was scared of them, because it sounded like the music was literally inside my head. And this is at volume level 1 on a Zune. But then i slowly
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I kinda implied this tip in a previous tip when i introduced all of the various IDE docking targets , but i wanted to call it out specifically, since it is rare you see a tool window in this position. The Memory tool windows (when in debugging mode) are
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I'm heading home for Mardi Gras, so Keith Elder and I are organizing a "Geek Dinner" in Hattisburg on Monday, Feb 4. (Lundi is french for Monday). If you are interested, either contact me directly or leave a comment. We're going
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This is one of those features i always forget about. The window management dev and I were discussing another tip, when he showed the auto-hiding channel context menu. I keep forgetting its there. Right-click on the tool window auto-hiding channel to invoke
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This tip is similar to the one we saw in the Tools - Options - Environment - General series called How to customize auto-hiding and closing docked tool windows? Regardless of how you have these settings set, you can always undock a single tool window
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Tool Windows are available in 5 different states: Floating Dockable Tabbed Document Auto Hiding Hide Although I would say that "Dockable" actually represents two mutually-exclusive states... Docked (to the side of the IDE, etc) Hovering (this is my made-up
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Update 17 Jan 2008: Note there isn't a way to re-show all your tool windows, when you apply this command. However, i've posted a workaround - which requires you to export and reimport your settings before you play with auto-hide all. Happy Birthday Mom!!
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So, I'm going through our Window Management test cases, looking for good tips and tricks, when I saw this test case. I thought, "I don't remember this one at all!" A funny story here about this tip. I thought I had discovered a bug where "shift+clicking
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I stated earlier that i would add numbers to each tip. However, the Saints ended up playing half-way well, so i got caught up in the game instead of my tip authoring. So, what could be the most mind-numbing thing i could watch tonight to include
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At the very beginning of the tip of the day series, I went over a few tool window docking targets tips . I focused mostly on the docked tool window docking targets (if that makes any sense). What i mean is when a tool window is in a docked state, a set
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In an earlier post about CodeMash, i mentioned that I got a fauxhawk, because it is a mohawk for women. Apparently, the hair dresser back home was wrong (or i really misunderstood her). David Beckham (soccer guy) popularized the fauxhawk,
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Quite possibly the best conference I've ever been to. Even though I attended very few sessions, what made the experience so great was chatting with users of both CodePlex and VS tip of the Day . And I have to say that I got a rush from so
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Okay, not one of my better tip of the day titles, but it is my way of introducing the Windows Windows dialog. It is such a simple dialog box, but for some reason we (as in the Core IDE testers) loved to test this dialog box. Maybe it was because it didn't
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There's just not enough coffee for west coast people who attend conferences on the east coast. For me, breakfast started at 4am PST. Hopefully this post is readable =) I'm at CodeMash in Sandusky, Ohio. First time in Ohio. First time anywhere cold in
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Yep, we're in the file tab channel context menu series for tip of the day. Hmm, i wonder what tip comes next... Right-click on the File Tab and select Open Containing Folder. I love this feature. It's just great to be able to jump from file folder to
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Now this is a feature I absolutely cannot live without. This was one of the two best features we've added in Visual Studio 2005 (in my humble, bias opinion). Tomorrow's tip will be the second best. On the File Tab Channel, you can right-click and select
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This is a really, really useful feature. But i'll always remember how difficult it was for me to find bugs with it. That really frustrates a tester, when you can't break a dev's newly written code. =) Right-click on a File Tab , and select Close All But
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A fellow program manager and I were trying to out "did you know..." each other about Visual Studio the other day (being Sept 20) in my office. I won with this one. On the File Tab Channel, all the way to the right-hand side, there's an inverted triangle
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In Visual Studio 2005, we introduced the IDE Navigator. It's that window that pops up when you press Ctrl+Tab. Once the window pops up, keep holding down the Ctrl key, while you use either the arrow keys or the mouse to pick a file or tool window to activate.
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Under Tools - Options - Environment - Startup , you'll find the At startup: combo box. You can select to open to whatever your web browser home page is set to. (Note: this option is found in Tools - Options - Environment - Web Browser) the last loaded
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Go to Tools - Options - Environment - Startup and in the Start Page News Channel: change to the desired RSS feed. You can also update the time in minutes to pull content from the feed. Note that once you press OK on the Tools Options dialog, the content
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For those of you following the Tip of the Day series, say it with me now, "under the tools - options - environment - documents page, you'll find the..." show miscellaneous files in Solution Explorer option. I find this feature very useful when you're
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