VS Tips and Tricks

Four days left!

Dave Redding — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:40:00 GMT

I have four days to finish (read: start) my Christmas shopping! I think I'm just going to go to walmart, walk down the cheap isle and scoop arm fulls of crap into a basket. Pay someone to wrap it for me, and then randomly label each gift with a name. I really think the people who say Christmas has become to commercialized are the people who wait till the last minute to buy their gifts.

On another note, Darrell Hawley, Dave Baldwin, and Myself are planning on going down to Grizzly peak tonight (they have the BEST stout on nitro) to talk about driving our user group membership. Join us for some good smart-ass conversation with a dabble of tech thrown in. We need ideas and were ready to listen. You may even find out about our Super Ultra High Tech Secret logo contest. If you miss tonight though, I'm sure I'll blog about it.

In the spirit of the last post, here are some more shortcuts I've been using in VS2k5

Ctrl+m -> Ctrl+m Collapses/Expands the current code block/region thats under the cursor
Ctrl+m -> Ctrl+O Collapses all code blocks/Regions in a given document.

I have some more Ideas for addl. posts today, so check back.

Dave

Tricks of the trade...

Dave Redding — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:11:00 GMT

The user group is hosting some new ideas. One of which is Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. So, being the vp of AADND I should throw what i have in. Without further adue, here are some of my submissions. (* indicates VS2k5 only).

Keyboard shortcuts (Yes i'm so lazy i hate to use the mouse)

Shift+Del   : Cuts an entire line, putting it on the clipboard, great to use with...

~~Shift+Ins    : Pastes the contents of the clipboard to the current position of the cursor.~~
(Actually, i'm not sure what the hell this does)

*Ctrl+Tab  : Cycles through aviable windows, similar to alt+tab in windows

*Ctrl+] (left bracket): When the cursor is on a bracket in C# (or a end x in VB) this handy shortcut will hop you to the opening or closing bracket for that block.

I'll continue to post these and i'll scatter them librally throughout the site in the future. I also encourage you to submit your own. Either at the AADND site or here as a comment.

At one point or another i'll add them to one large pdf that will look absolutly faboulous hanging next to your autographed print of Bill Gates in your cube. You know, the one with the dart holes in it?

Dave.