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If the MS Office team wrote Visual Studio

August 5, 2008 Aug 5, 2008 08/5/08

Andrew Arnott

Some humorous pros and cons to Visual Studio, if the Microsoft Office team were ever to take over. (disclaimer: this is a tongue in cheek post.  No offense -- only laughs intended) Visual Studio 2008 would be able to load VC7 projects, modify them in any way VC7 allowed, and save the project back to VC7 format, allowing you to work with...

Visual Studio trick to quickly find any file in solution

August 2, 2008 Aug 2, 2008 08/2/08

Andrew Arnott

You know that Find text box in the toolbar of Visual Studio?  Those of us who are keyboard-inclined probably never use it because Ctrl+F is quicker than moving your hand to the mouse.  But there is a hidden gem of a feature inside it that really makes me feel like a power user that I wanted to share. That find box doubles as a ...