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I never officially tested the object browser, but rather played back-up tester, in case someone went on vacation, needed help analyzing failures during a full test pass, etc. So for most of these tips, i’ve been browsing their test cases and documentation
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In the Object Browser Settings, there’s the Show Base Types option. For the example below, Class1 inherits from ClassBase. When this option is enabled, under Class1 you’ll see the “Base Types” folder. If you’ve been wondering how to get rid
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For the next several tips, we’re going to take apart the Object Browser Settings for what appears in the object browser. The first set of options control your View preference in the Object pane, which is either by Namespace or by Containers . Think
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This is really a continuation from yesterday’s tip, but wanted to call it out as a separate tip. I was kinda surprised to see it in the list of commands, but then again, one can never have too many keyboard shortcuts =) As far as binding this to a keyboard
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Another set of buttons on the Object Browser toolbar belongs to Navigate Forward and Navigate Back. The pages you visit within the object browser are saved as a MRU (Most Recently Used). This alone is somewhat exciting, but what really makes it exciting
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Let’s say that you find the component that you want to add to your solution. Typically, you’ll go to the solution explorer, right-click on the project node and select Add References, bring up the Add Reference Dialog, and you know how the rest goes.
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Expanding a little more on yesterday’s tip, you can create a custom components list for the Object Browser. There are two ways to reach the custom components list dialog. Either clicking that little “…” browse button next to the combo box
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Once again Rob Caron has sent me on a quest. This time it is to put together a Visual Studio factoid – a list of historical facts about VS, like Why is the executable devenv.exe instead of visualstudio.exe? Is the Visual Studio logo an infinity
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By default, the Object Browser shows you all the components in the latest .NET Framework version. But sometimes you don’t need to know about the entire world, and just want to focus on the objects in your solution. In the upper right-hand corner
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It’s time to move on to the Object Browser… You can use Ctrl+Alt+J to open the Object Browser. If this keyboard shortcut does not work for you, check what View.ObjectBrowser is bound to under Tools Options – Environment – Keyboard. Technorati
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And to finish the customization of the external tools series, you can prompt for arguments, in case you need to enter or edit values each time you run the tool. So now, if i need to specify which file i want Notepad to open, i’m prompted for the
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Updated 30Apr2008: Note the binary directory is for Visual Studio 2008. I’ve hinted at a few of the external tools tokens, but let’s explore a little more. I think most of these are self-explanatory, and the help documentation explores each in depth,
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At the bottom of the External Tools dialog, you’ll see more options for customizing the external tool within visual studio. Today’s tip is about the Use output window option. The idea here is you’re running a .bat file, and you want to track
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Continuing with the newly added notepad tool from Friday’s tip , you can use the External Tools dialog to sort your list of external tools as they will appear on the Tools menu. To the right you’ll find the Move up and Move down. You can specify a mnemonic
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Go to the Tools – External Tools dialog, and you’ll see the Add button. Clicking Add will create a [New Tools 1] placeholder. Let’s add Notepad as an external tool by calling it “Notepad” as the Title . For the command , this
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