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.
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Highlight the file you work with in Visual Studio Solution Explorer
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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.
- In Visual Studio, choose Tools > Import and Export Settings
- Choose Import Selected Environment Settings and select whether you want to back up your existing settings or not
- Click Browse... to choose the file you downloaded.
- You get a choice which settings you want to import - choose all of them since the file only contains color settings and won't touch your other VS settings.
- Click Finish and you'll see the new colors.
Note: if you save the file to My Documents > Visual Studio 2010 > Settings, you'll have quick access to choose the settings file in step 3 above.
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.
I recently switched to Visual Studio 2010 and noticed this plug in is not ready for Visual Studio 2010 yet. Here is how you can get it work for Visual Studio before CopySourceAsHtml owner releases an official update to support Visual Studio 2010.
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 skip to use default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + D Continue reading
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
Training Resources
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course
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 developers from wasting time investigating wrong code. Thanks to FxCop in visual studio, now finding dead code is pretty straight forward. Continue reading
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 simple Ctrl+Shift+D.
Download it Free at: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx. Continue reading