July 2004 - Posts

Reminder: The VS Editor Team Chat is Today
28 July 04 09:34 AM | VSEditor | 1 Comments   

Join members of the Microsoft Editor and Code Navigation team today @ 11:00am Pacific in an online chat to discuss Visual Studio 2005 editor features, provide us feedback about the Beta version and get answers to your questions. Chat room: http://communities2.microsoft.com/home/chatroom.aspx?siteid=34000014 Read More...

Making the Code Definition Window Editable
27 July 04 04:32 PM | VSEditor | 13 Comments   

I'd like to get your feedback on a design change that we are implementing for the Beta 2 release of VS 2005. In Beta 1, we introduced the Code Definition Window for the C#, J# and VC languages. The current view is a read-only view of the definition of Read More...

Upcoming Editor Chat on July 28
19 July 04 09:02 AM | VSEditor | 1 Comments   

The Editor team is having a chat next week and we hope that you can make it. Here are the details: Visual Studio 2005 Editor Features Visual Studio 2005 has added many features to Core Editor, including Code Snippets, Smart Tags, Brief/Emacs Emulations, Read More...

Build Comment Web Pages in VS 2003 and Windows XP SP2
16 July 04 05:07 PM | VSEditor | 5 Comments   

If you use documentation created by Build Comment Web Pages in Visual Studio 2003, you will experience problems viewing the documentation after upgrading to Windows XP SP2. Currently, you can download the release candidate for testing purposes here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx Read More...

Code Snippet - Schema Description
14 July 04 10:49 AM | VSEditor | 9 Comments   

I'm working on posting the XSD and will update this post to link to it once I've found a place that I can put it. CodeSnippet The <CodeSnippet> tag is the root element for the schema. It has a format attribute which specifies the schema version/format Read More...

Beginner's tips on VS Find and Replace using Regular Expressions - Tutorial #3
12 July 04 02:31 PM | VSEditor | 1 Comments   

In answering some blog posts, I mentioned tagged expressions. I thought I'd talk about them now before going on to other regular expression syntax. Tagged expressions are useful for doing replacements in a regular expression search. When you tag an expression Read More...

Code Snippets - a way to be more efficient in writing code
08 July 04 07:59 PM | VSEditor | 14 Comments   

One of my favorite new features in Whidbey is Code Snippets. Code snippets are xml files stored on your machine that allow you to insert chunks of predefined code and then move quickly between common places that need to be filled in with values relevant Read More...