December 2008 - Posts
‘Cause nothing lasts forever… even cold November rain My most sincere thanks to you for reading the 17 month series. Because of you, people from my hometown are going to college. All because of community inspiring community. I want to part ways saying
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This is really a repost from 3 (and even 4) years ago when Tip of the Day was just a weekly series. I’m really glad to hear that Visual Studio 2010 will have multi-monitor support. Really, really glad, as you can tell from the original blog post. Of course,
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A while back, when I was collecting Visual Studio tips, the “Open Source” command was pointed out to me. Considering my day job (I’m the Program Manager for CodePlex.com ), I couldn’t wrap my head around this command, even after the 2 second demo. After
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This tip is specific for Visual Studio 2008. You can easily find the samples that have been installed for Visual Studio by going to Help-Samples. Then in the browser, click on the local Samples folder link. As the message box states, the samples are in
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I feel obligated to talk about Dynamic Help. In any feature area that I tested, there was always the Help category in the test case bed. The Help category represented things like F1, documentation content, and of course Dynamic Help. Dynamic Help is a
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If you do a search for the phrase “how to create a custom winform control” using the default options in the General Development Environment, you’ll get back 500 results, as shown below. If you go to Tools – Options – Help – General (and in VS shell, add
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Today’s tip is just a collection of some tweaks you can make to your search results. Although 16 months ago, I would have said each one of these tweaks is its own tip. But these days I’m all about quality over quantity , since you readers keep me honest
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Last week, I spoke at the Engineering Excellence / Trustworthy Computing Forum to Microsoft employees at the Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen about CodePlex. I also attempted to do 101 Visual Studio Tips in 50 minutes, but only got through 85 tips.
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According to my notes (taken on July 11, 2007, so it’s been a while), you should be able to save your search filters too, so I’m wondering if this is a “just me” situation or if this is working for others. Yes, I’ll admit, I haven’t installed SP1 yet
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If you bring up a help page by pressing F1, doing a search, filtering via the Index, or any other method that doesn’t involve the Contents tool window, you’ll notice the Contents window will be out of sync with the current page. To put it back in sync
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Once upon a time, a computer programmer drowned at sea. Many <insert occupation here> were on the beach. They heard the screams of “F1 F1”, but no one understood… Welcome to the Help tips series! In my quest for Visual Studio completeness (in the
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I never knew we put in object model support for the Import / Export Settings feature. When I was testing the feature, I remember being told there wasn’t time in the schedule to do it. Obviously priorities changed after I moved onto the next feature area,
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Update: i've fixed the registry key for the recent files. ironically in my VS Tips talk today in Denmark, in the handout, i had a typo in the handout where I put "Recent" instead "Project" for the project MRU. Have you ever deleted or renamed a project,
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This sample has been around for ages, at least since Visual Studio .NET 2003 era. According to the blogosphere, the sample floating around out there came from a SDET Lance (who I knew back in the day). The one below came from Sean on the VS Editor team
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I do most of my blogging about CodePlex over on the CodePlex team blog , but every now and then there’s something cool I want to share over here with you all. We did our first ever CodePlex Town Hall meeting at PDC with members of the CodePlex community
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Recently (as in August of this year), I met Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer in the UK who was in town for an event. I forget which event because I wasn’t sleeping yet due to writing the book. Saqib had asked me how to do this, and although I got
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This was a user-submitted tip from back in May 2008. I really do read all incoming email, but it just takes me a while to respond. And yet again, I didn’t know about this functionality. I find these little things about the IDE fascinating, because there’s
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