March 2008 - Posts
Both the Error List and the Task List have support for multi-column sorting, like secondary sort (and can someone remind me what's the term for 3rd-ary - the term that comes after secondary). For example, you want to sort all Tasks (or Errors) by
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If you right-click on an error in the error list, you'll see a context menu pop up with Show Error Help. Clicking on this command will launch the external help documentation viewer (dexplorer) to that specific error. Technorati Tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Ti
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In the General Development Settings, the keyboard binding is Ctrl+Shift+F12 , so your mileage may vary depending on which settings you are using. You can go to Tools - Options - Keyboard to figure it out. The command is View.NextError. I'm a little surprised
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This was one of my least favorite designs in the VS environment. When the Error List was split from the Task List, a row of buttons was put on the top of the Error List for users to customize whether they just wanted to see Errors, Warnings, or
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Visual Studio comes with two commands for navigating among the various things in the task list: View.NextTask and View.PreviousTask. As we've explored more than you ever wanted to know about the task list, you now know that the task list has
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This is another one of those features i didn't know about until someone showed me. You can store shortcuts in your Task List, and can even use them as tasks to scratch off, if you want. And just like user tasks, shortcuts are saved in your
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Today's tip only applies to Comments, as User Tasks are not saved with a file. Go to Tools - Options - Environment - Task List, and uncheck the Hide Full File Paths. And now the Task List will display the full paths for Comments. Technorati Tags: VS2005Tip
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Todo's are not the only thing you can display under "Comments" in the Task List. If you go to Tools - Options - Environment - Task List you'll see a Token List . By default, Visual Studio comes with Hack, Undone, and Comment, but
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Let's focus now on the other aspect of the Task List - the Comments left in the code. You need to drop down the combo box at the top right to show Comments in order to see your comment "tokens" (i.e. comments, todo's, and hacks) in the task list. Unlike
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Yep, today is the Sara Birthday Edition v3.0, so we're going to do another round of Go Sara Go . If you read tip of the day, all i ask is if you could leave a quick "go sara go" comment , although poems are greatly appreciated too! You
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So after yesterday's tip, you've probably created a few tasks and deleted them, and noticed that annoying prompt. Here's how you can get rid of it. On each user task, you'll see the delete command on the context menu, as shown below. And you'll
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Marty, this blog post is for you. =) I flew down to San Fran last night with Alan . It was my first (and last) experience in First Class. As soon as i sat down, i turned to Alan and asked, "do your feet touch the ground?" There
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Now that you've created a user task, you can now assign a priority. I call this out as a separate tip, as it is most likely not intuitive that you can do this. Under the '!' column, you can click on any cell to pop open the Priority combo box.
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Welcome to the Task List series! The Task List is for user tasks and todos, whereas the Error List is for errors and warnings. In case you are from back in the '02 and '03 VS days, the Task List used to do both, until it was split into two different
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Today's tip was submitted by a blog reader. I had no clue that you could do this. Select a line of code, and then right- drag that line to anywhere within your editor (or into another editor window). Then you'll get this little menu
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Let's say you create a new class file called Class1. If you try to rename "Class1" in the solution explorer, we'll prompt you whether you want to rename all references to this code element in your project. But I'm more of a IDE Tips and Tricks know-it-all,
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It's funny that I've never actually given a formal talk at a conference before, and at this year's TechEd, I'll will give two talks =) Just don't tell me to break a leg. We don't need another TechEd Scooter-Cam 1 (or a bob haircut!). Also
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At some point, you'll experience that build window sliding out from its auto-hiding place during a build. If you want to fine-tune this experience so that the output window only shows when you tell it to (maybe you just want to check the status bar for
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Another co-authored tip with a tip of the day reader. I admit i didn't know how to do this either, but i get the advantage of asking the developer on the feature directly =) If you have a solution with lots of projects in it, and you notice the toolbox
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When you attempt to open a project hosted on a UNC share (e.g. \\server\folder) you'll get the following warning message box: If you need to show this message again, but clicked the "do not show," you can go to Tools - Options - Projects and
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日本語の Visual Studio 2008 ワンポイントは、新しい場所からご利用いただけます。 http://blogs.msdn.com/vstipsjpn 他の人に教えられるまでインクリメンタル検索を知りませんでした。今ではこれなしでは生きていけません。 Ctrl + I キーを押します。 検索文字列の入力を始めると、最初に一致したテキストにカーソルが移動して、現在の検索文字列が強調表示されます。 Ctrl + I キーをもう一度押すと、その検索文字列に次に一致するテキストにカーソルが移動します。
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Yeah, that's my attempt at humor for explaining "simplified build configurations." In other words, if you have never touched the "Debug" or "Release" configurations and/or have never heard of the build configuration
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Today's tip was co-authored with a tip of the day reader. The idea is you just want to press some keyboard shortcut, type in the filename that's in the solution, and go directly to that file. No solution explorer. No open file dialog.
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I had to do a little research to remember what this feature is called. It's the "command line" within Visual Studio that doesn't require opening the Command Window. Only after doing 5 minutes of searches through our test cases did
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