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Document Outline for Windows forms

Many of you may be familiar with the Document Outline feature in word. Did you know Visual Studio also has a Document Outline. It's there in VS 2003 for Web Forms, in 2005 MS has made it useful to windows developers also. To open the Document Outline Read More...

Is IntelliSense showing you everything?

Well I learned something new today. I can't believe I have been developing in Visual Studio .Net for so long without knowing this one. I'm sure someone showed me at one time or another. If they did I forgot. A colleague of mine mentioned I should use Read More...

Productivity tips for the Immediate window

Here is a nice little Immediate window trick I just came across. It's not going to change your life but it might make using the immediate window a little easier. Have you ever wanted to change the last thing you looked at slightly, perhaps you were looking Read More...

Open With... the editor of your choice.

I'm on an VS IDE high lately. So to continue in this arena. Here is another tip my students and audiences seem to like. I'm sure there is someone out there who has an XML file with a non standard extension, and they want to be able to use the XML editor Read More...

Incremental Search

Barry found this and showed me some time ago. I had forgot about it and stumbled across it today. I keep forgetting it's there. I'm hoping by Blogging it I will remember. When you are editing code in Visual Studio hit CTRL-I . You will see this little Read More...

How does dynamic help work?

Did you ever wonder how dynamic help works? The Visual Studio IDE continuously emits keywords and attributes depending on what you are doing in the IDE. Lets start by turning on debugging in Visual Studio. I don't mean the kind of debugging you do to Read More...

The Immediate Window

I notice a lot of developers do not use the Immediate window. If you are one of those users, do yourself a favour and check it out. It's terribly useful. For those of you who are not familiar with it here are some highlights to get you started. The window Read More...

Visual Studio Command Prompt

This is a trick I got from Paul Murphy at the Toronto Security Briefing. Which was very good by the way, I thought Paul did a great job. If you missed it and would like to see the slides and demos. Visit Paul's Blog he posted them last night. http://www.paul.bz/blog.aspx Read More...