Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets

Visual Studio Blog March 10, 2010 Mar 10, 2010 03/10/10

I was spending some time responding to Connect bugs the other day when I ran across this suggestion: “It would be nice to have a clip board history window that could be next to the control toolbox as a nice utility window. (Often in presentations I see Microsoft presenters using a custom clipboard tool for such a purpose). Many times I wish...

MSBuild 4 Detailed Build Summary

Visual Studio Blog March 5, 2010 Mar 5, 2010 03/5/10

Introduction When we were developing the current version of MSBuild, we spent a lot of time analyzing builds to determine where our performance issues lay. The standard logging, even on diagnostic verbosity and with the performance summary enabled (/clp:PerformanceSummary=true on the MSBuild command line) doesn’t give us the kind of ...

Troubleshooting Extensions with the Activity Log

Visual Studio Blog February 24, 2010 Feb 24, 2010 02/24/10

One of the most powerful tools for troubleshooting issues that involve Visual Studio extensions is often overlooked, even though it has been around for quite some time (since VS 2005). Anyone wondering what Visual Studio is doing with their VS Package, Extension, MEF Component, or pkgdef file should ask the IDE for an activity log. In ...

Visual Studio “Tip of the Day”

Visual Studio Blog February 2, 2010 Feb 2, 2010 02/2/10

If you like the tips and tricks we sometimes post on this blog, you might want to check out the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks blog. It’s written by Zain Naboulsi, a Senior Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, and it’s devoted to these little productivity boosters. We’ll continue to post the occasional tip here on the Visual ...

Tips and Tricks: Ctrl+E to Search in New Project Dialog and Extension Manager

Visual Studio Blog January 21, 2010 Jan 21, 2010 01/21/10

Here’s a quick tip of the day for anyone who wants to quickly use the new search feature of the New Project Dialog and the Extension Manager. You can press Ctrl+E to quickly set focus to the search box. Did you know that this same keyboard shortcut also works in Windows Explorer, IE and other applications? Give it a shot...

Tips and Tricks: Zooming in the VS 2010 Editor

Visual Studio Blog January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10

You probably know that Visual Studio has an option to change your text size, but did you know you can also zoom the editor in VS 2010? Ctrl+mouse wheel zooming has been available since the first Visual Studio 2010 CTP, but we’ve finished it by adding a zoom control and key bindings in Beta 2. Check out this video we’ve created to ...

Toolbox Search

Visual Studio Blog October 26, 2009 Oct 26, 2009 10/26/09

Hi, my name’s Josh and I’m a developer on the VS Shell team. Among other things, I’m responsible for the Toolbox. In VS 2010 Beta2, we’ve added the ability to search for controls in the toolbox by name. To use it, put focus in the toolbox (by clicking in it, for example) and start typing the name of the control you ...

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