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On the front page of the Content Installer is a link to view the content in Windows Explorer. When...

Author: saraford Date: 11/14/2008

Continuing with yesterday’s tip, whenever you install a code snippet, the content installer will...

Author: saraford Date: 11/13/2008

Now before I get the angry emails on my first day back from vacation, I will say up front that there...

Author: saraford Date: 11/11/2008

This also works in the Object Browser, but considering it is in a tabbed documented state (meaning...

Author: saraford Date: 11/10/2008

Today’s tip is actually a continuation from yesterday’s, as the Create Instance and Invoke Static...

Author: saraford Date: 11/07/2008

The Class Diagram was built by another team outside the Visual Studio Core Team, so I don’t have too...

Author: saraford Date: 11/06/2008

Just like Object Browser, you can export your class view settings to a .vssettings file. This blog...

Author: saraford Date: 11/05/2008

Just like in the Object Browser, Alt+Right Arrow (View.Forward) and Alt+Left Arrow (View.Backward)...

Author: saraford Date: 11/04/2008

The Class View and the Object Browser are very similar, even down to the sort by options. I had to...

Author: saraford Date: 11/03/2008

My camera battery died after Day 2. Must buy new camera that charges via USB (instead of draining.)...

Author: saraford Date: 11/03/2008

Happy Halloween! Here’s a picture of me and Beth Massi (i’ll let you guess which is which) at her...

Author: saraford Date: 10/31/2008

Going back to basics with some tool windows I haven’t covered yet. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+C in the...

Author: saraford Date: 10/30/2008

According to some blog posts, this tip should save you some time using Visual Studio 2005. I’ve...

Author: saraford Date: 10/29/2008

And some more pictures… In the slides preceding Monday’s keynote, my name was shown for the book...

Author: saraford Date: 10/28/2008

Alongside project templates, you can create item templates within the same File – Export Template...

Author: saraford Date: 10/27/2008

All the tips thus far have been for project templates created by you or someone else. Let’s say you...

Author: saraford Date: 10/24/2008

It’s a option, so it is fair game as a tip. Hey, they all can’t be winners, you know. =) Although I...

Author: saraford Date: 10/23/2008

On the File – Export Template Wizard, there’s the option to Automatically import the template into...

Author: saraford Date: 10/22/2008

On page 2 of the File – Export Template wizard, you can specify several options. The first of these...

Author: saraford Date: 10/21/2008

https://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-15-visual-studio-tips-and-running-an-agile-team-with-sara-...

Author: saraford Date: 10/20/2008

In yesterday’s example, the default puts the project template in the root folder for that language....

Author: saraford Date: 10/20/2008

Let’s say that you want to share your newly created project template with your team. Tell them to go...

Author: saraford Date: 10/17/2008

Starting in Visual Studio 2005, you can create your own custom project templates to appear alongside...

Author: saraford Date: 10/16/2008

I just got the first two copies hot of the press, a phrase I’ve never used in its original context...

Author: saraford Date: 10/15/2008

On the File menu, under New, there’s the Project From Existing Code command. This brings up a wizard...

Author: saraford Date: 10/15/2008

For the same reason it merits its own command in the Solution Explorer context menu, it merits its...

Author: saraford Date: 10/14/2008

For managed projects, you can control their build order via the IDE. Right-click on the project in...

Author: saraford Date: 10/13/2008

This tip originates from the MSBuild team as a way to edit your MSBuild project file within the IDE...

Author: saraford Date: 10/10/2008

Just found out about this tip the other day. Works for both 2005 and 2008, although I haven’t tested...

Author: saraford Date: 10/09/2008

And after 7 years, I’m still learning something new about the New Project Dialog. I have to have...

Author: saraford Date: 10/08/2008

My 2 talks, plus my 20 Visual Studio Tips in 7 minutes micro-talk, are available at...

Author: saraford Date: 10/07/2008

Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build and Run, there’s the MSBuild project build...

Author: saraford Date: 10/07/2008

Finally, at long last, the Save Waveland Scholarship Fund was announced today at the local college....

Author: saraford Date: 10/06/2008

was going to start this blog entry off with the definition of Irony, but the more I read about it,...

Author: saraford Date: 10/06/2008

Although the documentation for this option says that this applies only to VC, it seems to work for...

Author: saraford Date: 10/03/2008

Say it with me now, “Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build And Run” there’s the...

Author: saraford Date: 10/02/2008

Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build and Run, there’s the Only build startup...

Author: saraford Date: 10/01/2008

Under Tools – Options – Projects And Solutions – Build And Run, there’s the Maximum Number Of...

Author: saraford Date: 09/30/2008

Reshmi, a SDET on the Web Development Tools team, is running a new Tips and Tricks blog for ASP.NET,...

Author: saraford Date: 09/29/2008

Ahh, finally, back to one of the IDE feature areas I used to test – Projects and Solutions! And no...

Author: saraford Date: 09/29/2008

Sara Aside: Matt and I were IM’ing each other this morning, and he congratulated me for the book...

Author: saraford Date: 09/26/2008

And last but not least, there was the HTML Visualizer… And your HTML appears as it would in a...

Author: saraford Date: 09/26/2008

Let’s say you have a more interesting string that contains xml, say one of the code snippet files....

Author: saraford Date: 09/25/2008

At the bottom of the Text Visualizer dialog box, there’s the option to toggle word wrap, to give you...

Author: saraford Date: 09/24/2008

Let’s say you have a long string, maybe a SQL connection string or just some tabular data (or data...

Author: saraford Date: 09/23/2008

Last week, my career-long dream of becoming an international speaker came true. I had the...

Author: saraford Date: 09/22/2008

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