Editor
Information regarding the Visual Studio Editor
Good thing to know when making a custom editor By Matthew Manela (Developer Solution Intern) Here’s a walkthrough to a problem I ran into when I was trying to create a custom editor that lets you change what language the code window is in on the fly.
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Sean talks more at http://blogs.msdn.com/vseditor/archive/2005/05/12/417011.aspx Quick summary: To avoid issue – try not to set tool windows to auto-hide. Experiencing issue? – activate the auto-hiding tool window and close it I personally haven’t hit
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Update: Sean has a much better workaround at http://blogs.msdn.com/vseditor/archive/2005/04/26/412307.aspx Sometimes being a QA reminds me of when I was a soccer referee – you’re only as good as your last call or the last bug you missed. I’ve seen a couple
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It’s really the simple things in life. Ever had a long list of parameters for a method and didn’t want to have to look down at the tooltip to know where you were at in this list? Check out Edit.PasteParameterTip. Under the General Development Settings,
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Josh went around and video’ed a bunch of us at work in our offices. It has been an interesting experience sharing an office with the PM for the features I’m testing, to say the least. My job is to break all the stuff that Sean demo’ed, and then to write
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Update 12/2/2004: Uploaded an image from Visual Studio 2005 Beta. Note the image below shows guidelines at column numbers 5 and 30, but the regkey value is RBG(255,0,0), 4, 29. The Guideline column numbers are 0-based in the registry. Update 11/29/2004:
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Marie has done an awesome job writing up the most complete “how to file a good bug report” I’ve ever seen on paper: http://blogs.msdn.com/productfeedback/archive/2004/09/27/235003.aspx Two things I really want to emphasize: Good bug titles – we have lots
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I’ve been testing the new Code Snippets feature heavily the past couple of days. Meghan (Editor Dev Lead) and Sean (Editor PM) have good information about Code Snippets on the VS Editor blog: Code Snippets – a way to be more efficient in writing code
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I’m getting close to finishing all of our manual test cases for our Full Test Pass , which has helped me tremendously to learn about my new feature area. Here is my list of tips and tricks that I’ve collected over the past couple of weeks: Tip #1 – Code
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Ever since I started at Microsoft on the Visual Studio team, I’ve always wanted to own the editor. You can’t have a development environment without an editor, so I’m really excited to own such a critical aspect of Visual Studio. Some of my new feature
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