Today’s tip is just a collection of some tweaks you can make to your search results. Although 16 months ago, I would have said each one of these tweaks is its own tip. But these days I’m all about quality over quantity , since you readers keep me honest when I start to slack. =D Tip 376.A You ca...

I added the exclamation point, because I never knew this. It is amazing that I’m still finding out about IDE features! When does the madness end? But in all fairness, this is a specific C# IDE feature, as it relates to the Go To Definition Window. (Sorry VB folks to do this to you yet again. And t...

This was tip #17 in my TechEd VS 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Talk In C#, there’s the option to remove any of your unused using statements.  This is especially helpful if you’re reusing some sort of template over and over again.  Instead of having to comment out each line, compile, see whe...

Thanks to everyone who attended my talks on Friday.  Wow.  What a great turnout and response!  I really appreciate the kind words.  Charlie Calvert and I worked so hard this past month to get the talk ready.  I’m so happy to see it was well-received. For this week, i’m g...

Tuesday starts TechEd 2008, where I’ll find myself presenting three(!) talks.  The third talk came a few weeks ago when Noah Coad became unavailable to do the Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks talk.  Being the tireless community people that we are, Charlie and I have  picked up...

A few tips ago, I gave the documentation a hard time about now having an example.  But in today’s tip, the documentation is now “tip of the hatâ€� instead of “wag of the finger,â€� a reference to The Colbert Report. For today’s tip, the documentation had exactly what i needed.  In ...

Thanks to all for playing the Pop Quiz.  I've approved all comments, so you can read through the list.  Some were quite funny, and i always appreciate a good laugh. Congrats to Programmerman at http://www.programmerman.net/ for being the first to reply (and with the correct answer too). Th...

All code snippets are found in the Code Snippet Manager.  It is found at Tools - Code Snippet Manager.  If you are using the default general settings, you can use Ctrl+K, Ctrl+B to bring up the dialog box.  IMO, the most useful aspect of this dialog is to browse through your current s...

When you insert a code snippet, the editor highlights the fields (variables, values, etc) you can modify depending on how the code snippet was written.   The idea is you modify the contents of the field, then press tab to navigate to the next field.  When you press tab, that particula...