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Advanced Visual Studio 2010 Tips

Must have Visual Studio 2008 Tips

Tip #1 – Behold the power of incremental search

Tip #2 – Customize Find in Files / Registry edit to simply Find results window

Tip #3 – How not to accidentally cut/copy a blank line

Tip #4 – How to open a file without any UI

New Visual Studio 2010 features

Make sure to follow the new Visual Studio 2010 tip of the day with Zain!

Tip #5 – How to use Multi-line edit

Tip #6 – How to insert files from Right to Left in File tab channel

Tip #7 – Automatic Highlighting of Symbols

Tip #8 – IntelliSense “Sub-String” and Pascal Casing searching

Tip #9 – IntelliSense consume first / suggestion mode

Tip #10 – They Fixed the VB Smart tag bug

Press Ctrl+<period> to invoke smart tag, but now in VB, the first option in list is automatically selected, so you can simply hit <Enter> without having to first press the down arrow.

Tip #11 – New HTML and JavaScript Code Snippets

Tip #12 – Improved Outlining Collapsing / Expanding

In VS2010, you can select anywhere within the code block to collapse the region. You no longer have to click just the ‘-‘ box in the outlining margin to collapse the region.

Tip #13 – Navigate To

Tip #14 – Call Hierarchy

Tip #15 – Mutli-monitor Support

You can now drag out file tabs from the file tab channel and treat them like tool windows. Also, both these file tabs and tool windows will listen to WindowsKey + Arrow to snap to the monitor’s edge. use ctrl+DoubleClick to put either file or tool window back within Visual Studio in the “tabbed document” state.

Tip #16 – Zoom / Ctrl+Mouse Wheel

Tip #17 – The New and Improved Datatips

Tip #18 – Labeling and Sharing Breakpoints

Tip #19 – Getting Started with IntelliTrace

Tip #20 – WPF visualizer

Visual Studio Extensions

Tip #21 – How to Install Extensions

Tip #22 – Walkthrough of a few extensions

Tip #23 – Getting started writing your own extensions

Tip #24 – How to search project templates

Tip #25 – Add Reference Dialog Improvements


Tags: Customize, Editor, intellisense, Mutli-monitor, Theme, Tip, Walkthrough

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