July 2008 - Posts
Under Tools – Options – Debugging – General, there’s the option Enable Address-Level Debugging. When checked, you get the following additional Debugger Tool Windows: Memory windows, Disassembly, and Registers. And when unchecked, you don’t get them.
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In Tools – Options – Debugging – General, there’s the option “Break all processes when one process breaks.” Let’s say you are debugging multiple projects , and you want to configure what happens when one process breaks. For example, let’s say I
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Yesterday’s tip talked about how to start multiple projects for debugging, but taking a step back, let’s talk about the two ways you can select a single startup project. The first way is via the solution property pages. Right-click on the Solution,
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Happy Birthday Visual Studio Tip of the Day! Wow, what a difference a post a day makes. Thanks to everyone who has been reading the series. It’s been an extremely rewarding experience to see these tips help. And thanks for the
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Yesterday’s tip talked about how to delete all breakpoints. If you are following along at home, you hit the warning message that appears when you attempt to do this. If it is annoying, you can disable it by going to Tools – Options – Debugging
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You can press Ctrl+Shift+F9, bound to Debug.DeleteAllBreakpoints to delete all the breakpoints you’ve created in your solution. The command is found under the Debug menu. The option is also found on the Breakpoints window in the toolbar. Technorati
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If there ever were a “Sara needs a hug” moment… I’m doing a talk on Friday called Towards a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem . It’s a story about what I’ve seen and ideas I have for the future. I actually put together this abstract 2 years ago,
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In the general development settings, I didn’t see this command under the Debug menu. So, in case you want to use the keyboard to enable or disable a breakpoint, you can Ctrl+F9, which is bound to the command Debug.EnabledBreakpoint . Note
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In the New Breakpoint window, there’s a checkbox “Use IntelliSense to verify the function name.” Just as you would expect, this does a sanity check to ensure the function name is valid in your project. For example, if the function name doesn’t match
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In case you want to set a breakpoint at a given function, and not at the current line, you don’t have to search for the function name to hit F9. You can press Ctrl+B (general development settings) to do a Debug – Break at Function . This command
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Using the General Development Settings, the command Debug.ToggleBreakpoint will set (or delete) the breakpoint on the current line, in case you don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard. Technorati Tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tip
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Under Debug – Windows , you’ll find the Breakpoint window. Using the General Development Settings, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+B, which is bound to the command Debug.Breakpoints, in case your keyboard shortcut mileage varies Technorati Tags:
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Ah, time to get up and stretch. We’re in a new series, and it’s all about debugging. Let’s start off with the very basics. I know the majority of you already know this, but remember someone probably had to show you how to do this at some point.
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In earlier Toolbox tips , I talked about how you can customize your Toolbox. Now you can export those customizations to your .vssettings file. At least if you ever reset your toolbox, found on the Toolbox context menu, you’ll be able to import your
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I just can’t seem to get Pearl Jam’s “Black” out of my head… When you go to Tools – Import / Export Settings – Export (or Import when you have a .vssettings file that contains this category) , and you look at the description for the General Settings -
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Depending on the development settings you chose at first launch, like Visual Basic, you may see the Tools / Options dialog appear with a shortened page list and a checkbox at the bottom left corner. And if you check Show all settings , you’ll see the
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Kinda makes me wonder why the category wasn’t called Output Window Option instead of Options. Reading the category description made me smile, as it states that the Word Wrap option will be exported. At first, i really didn’t believe this,
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In 2008, there’s an option in the First Launch dialog to bring over your Visual Studio 2005 settings. If you had Visual Studio 2005 previously installed, you’ll still have your Visual Studio 2005 settings in your Documents folder. This includes
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On the first launch dialog, you may have noticed this checkbox for opting in for VS to download RSS content. This checkbox controls the content on the Start page. If you uncheck this checkbox, start VS with your favorite .vssettings file, and go
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I still plan to cover the more interesting categories in the Import / Export settings feature, but after a week of it, i wanted to break it up and talk about something new. Because Visual Studio no longer uses its factory defaults, you have to choose
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Happy 4th of July!! I’m actually in Orlando, hanging out with one of my oldest friends Rebecca. We went to kindergarten to our first semester of college together. She’s a saint for putting up with me all these years, as my energy level
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In the spirit of both the holiday weekend, I thought i’d mention how Jeff Blankenburg is celebrating his Contribupendence Day . From his blog, “Contribupendence Day. That's what I'm calling it. On July 3, 2008 , I am going to write recommendations
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In an earlier tip, I mentioned how you can create and manage your list of External Tools . You can save this list to a file if you ever want to just share that list with others or ever need to just get back your external tools list. Go to Tools
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Starting with this month’s issue , selected tips will be translated into Hebrew and featured in the “tip of the month” section of the newsletter. If there are any readers out there that would like to see all the tips translated into Hebrew, please
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In a much earlier tip, I talked about how to create a command window alias and how to view them. Since we’re in the profile tip series, here’s how you can export your saved command window aliases. Go to Tools – Import / Export Settings – Export Settings,
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