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Removing My Visual Studio Tips and Treats Download

As many of you know, I have a Visual Studio Tips and Treats presentation with over 140 tips. It has been an enormously popular presentation and one that I enjoy presenting. As part of that presentation I offered my eBook of these tips for download from my website. As of today, that download will no longer...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 08-26-2008
Visual Studio: Search Hidden Text

An attendee in my Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Treats session this weekend in Richmond, Virginia brought a new tip to my attention. I've often seen the 'Search Hidden Text' checkbox in the Quick Find dialog (Ctrl+F), but I never paid much attention to it. I remember playing with it once, but...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-28-2008
From the Forums: Disappearing Dialog Boxes and Windows

From time to time, folks seem to have issues with dialog boxes or tool windows disappearing. Most often, they are somehow off-screen and therefore unusable. For some dialog windows, the Visual Studio title bar turns gray, indicating the tool window does in fact have focus, it just can't be seen....

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-09-2008
Visual Studio: Easily Edit Project Files

In case you aren't aware, project files like .CSPROJ and .VBPROJ are really MSBuild project files, and as such, you can edit them to perform additional tasks, include targets, and more. I have often found myself editing them in Notepad because I believed it was the easiest way. As of today I am using...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 03-16-2008
Renaming and Copying Projects and Solutions

A question was posed to me this evening about copying and renaming Visual Studio projects. It is a lengthy enough topic to explain, I thought I better write it down. So here goes: Renaming Projects Step 1: Renaming projects can be an interesting challenge for the uninitiated. It's not quite as simple...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-01-2008
Visual Studio – Design-Time Click Annoyance

I have noticed from time to time when working in the Windows Forms designer that clicking back and forth between the designer pane and the properties grid can cause Visual Studio to think you double-clicked on a design item, and therefore create an event handler and switch to the code view. It is certainly...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-01-2008
Opening Projects in Existing Solution

Chalk this one up to 'did you know?' I certainly didn't – just saw this feature while working on another post actually. Say you have an existing solution open, and you want to open up another project. If you go to File | Open Project and select a project, the currently opened solution is...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-01-2008
Bookmark This

The bookmark window is something of a red-headed step-child in Visual Studio. No real developer would be caught dead using bookmarks, right? I mean, it makes hoping around large projects so much easier. Therefore it must be cheating, right? I am here to tell you that it is o.k. to use bookmarks. In fact...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 12-19-2007
Taming the Visual Studio WinForms Designer

Here's a new Visual Studio tip I picked up recently. I have built my share on WinForms apps, and most of them had extraneous labels to denote input fields or other areas of the form. I don't use them, their just placeholders for text. It used to be that when I was working on the code side ( F7...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 12-09-2007
Breakpoint Breakdown

We are all familiar with the breakpoint, but let's break down some of the advanced breakpoint features. Here's the simple class we are going to use. Create a console application and paste the following code into the program.cs file: using System; namespace BreakpointTester { class Program { static...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 12-09-2007

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