Tag: Visual Studio

  • Highlight the file you work with in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

    Visual Studio 2010 Tip – Highlight the file you work with in Solution Explorer Go to Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->General Check the "Track Active Item In Solution Explorer" checkbox.​

  • Remove dead using statements

    Visual Studio has a great feature to easily remove all dead using statements in your code. The steps are pretty straightforward. Right click anywhere from the code Select Organize Using and Select Remove Unused Usings.

  • Visual Studio Themes and Color Schemes

    I just came cross this site http://studiostyles.info/ which provides Visual Studio color schemes for free download. All color schemas work for both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Every schema has screenshots so you can see how it looks like before downloading it. You can follow following steps to import the color schema into Visual Studio.…

  • SpellChecker in WPF4 TextBox

    TextBox and RichTextBox in WPF4 has the built in SpellChecker functionality. It’s currently available in following four languages #LID 1033 – English #LID 3082 – Spanish #LID 1031 – German #LID 1036 – French Enable SpellChecker functionality on TextBox or RichTextBox is as easy as just setting SpellCheck.IsEnabled to True on the controls. <TextBox SpellCheck.IsEnabled=”True”…

  • CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2010

    CopySourceAsHtml is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that allows you be able to quickly get your code as HTML from Visual Studio, just like being able to save it as a HTML file from the Save As dialog. It’s very helpful if you frequently post code to blog or send code in email.…

  • GhostDoc Tutorial

    Earlier I have introduced this excellent comment auto generation tool – GhostDoc. Now you can follow this instructions to get GhostDoc working in just 5 minutes. Download GhostDoc and install GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plugin, so after Visual Studio is launched, you’d need to assign a hotkey for automatic comments generation, or just  click…

  • Final Visual Studio 2010 available for download

    Visual Studio 2010, the best version of Visual Studio ever, is now available for download in Microsoft download center. The build number for RTM VS2010 and CLR4 is 4.0.30319.1. Here is link for free trial Visual Studio 2010 Professional Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Training Resources Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit Visual…

  • Find Dead Code

    Dead code means block of code that is not reachable in application. They can cause noisy in code debugging and confuse developers. Sometimes I might spend a few hours to figure out why a breakpoint never hit. Most of code defect is result of old function no longer used and referenced. Remove them will prevent…

  • Visual Studio plug-in: GhostDoc

    Are your tired of documenting you code using C# /// XmlDoc syntax for each and every method? It is time for you to meet SubMain’s GhostDoc. SubMain’s GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plug-in the was design just for you. It will parse your method/property/parameters names and will create a great documentation just for you with…