Did you know… There is an Open Source command in Visual Studio? - #380
A while back, when I was collecting Visual Studio tips, the “Open Source” command was pointed out to me. Considering my day job (I’m the Program Manager for CodePlex.com), I couldn’t wrap my head around this command, even after the 2 second demo. After a few minutes, it clicked that it was “open” as in “view,” and not as in “Open.”
In honor of my day job, I decided to showcase this command as a tip. (My blog title made you look, didn’t it?)
In DExplorer (Documentation Explorer), whenever you do a search, you’ll get results by different search providers.
The above example shows a CodeGuru article result. Selecting open will take you directly to the article, but selecting open source will take you directly to CodeGuru.com. In other words, it will open the source of the article.
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Anonymous
December 16, 2008
PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/index.php/2008/12/17/did-you-know%e2%80%a6-there-is-an-open-source-command-in-visual-studio-380/Anonymous
December 30, 2008
Hey Sara - yes, the title of this article made me look. Given the confusion, would you consider renaming the command in VS2010? OpenArticleSource? ViewArticleSource?Anonymous
April 19, 2009
本篇包括tip371-tip380http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-37.html#371、从...