I have been using this Visual Studio extension called VS10x Code Map by Michael Kiss and I love it. It sits on the left or right of the Visual Studio text editor and provides an attractive outline view of the properties, methods, regions, etc in the current code file and lets you quickly navigate to [...]
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Download the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools
I saw in my feed reader a posting that announced the release of the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension that was available in the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager. At first glance I thought it was the Power Tools extension that I’ve been using for a while. However, this is a totally separate [...]
Hate VS2010 help? Get H3Viewer!
Update: There was a bug in H3Viewer at the time I posted this that showed an empty TOC and Index on x64 versions of Windows. Rob Chandler just informed me the current build (1.0.0.20) fixes this and I have confirmed it now works fine on x64! Apparently in between Beta 2 and RC Microsoft may [...]
Windows 7 Hack – Make the new taskbar MRU list work with Visual Studio
I love the new per-application MRU list that appears when you right click a pinned taskbar item. As I mentioned in a previous post, this seems to be driven off the existing API’s that the shell and applications use to populate the “Recent Documents” list in previous versions of Windows.
One annoying thing I noticed was that Visual Studio solutions were never showing up in the MRU list for Visual Studio. In fact, nothing was. It took about 5 seconds before I realized “duh… solutions aren’t associated with Visual Studio”. They’re actually associated with a stub called “Visual Studio Version Selector” which looks inside the .sln file and launches the appropriate version of Visual Studio if it is installed on your machine.
Personally, one version of Visual Studio is big enough for me so I always run the latest (currently Visual Studio 2008). I don’t need this version selector. Right Click –> Open With just screwed up the icons and didn’t help the MRU list problem but there was a very simply registry fix to make .sln files associate with Visual Studio 2008.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln\Shell\Open\Command] @=”\”C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\” \”%1\”"
Put the above in a .reg file or go into regedit.exe and do it by hand. If you need more instructions then the hack probably isn’t for you. Note that this will eliminate the ability to double click a .sln file and have it open in the version of Visual Studio that created it. But who really does that anyway.
A smarter CTRL+HOME in Visual Studio
I am a keyboard guy. I like to use keyboard shortcuts, I don’t like to waste time with the mouse. Especially when I am writing code. Today, for some stupid reason, I found myself making the mistake of hitting CTRL+HOME and jumping to the top of my source file when in fact I was trying [...]
Tracepoints in Visual Studio
Not sure if this is new or not, but this is such an awesome feature I had to blog about it. How many of you have Console.WriteLine or Debug.WriteLine or Trace.WriteLine statements cluttering up your code often for only temporary reasons? I just stumbled upon this tracepoint feature which works like a breakpoint except instead [...]
A Visual Studio tip you shouldn’t pass up
Just wanted to pass on this VS.NET tip that you might find useful. In the External Tools menu, I have added two commands: Command Prompt in Solution Command Prompt in Project They are pretty simple to add, but valuable nonetheless. Here is how to add them. Title: Command Prompt in Solution Command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe Arguments: /k [...]
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