Find Window in Visual Studio – Visual Studio Tip of Week #18

Normally when you use “ctrl + f” and search for results, you have to navigate one by one in every file where the searched string exists. There is an alternative to this rather than navigating one by one you can have all the results in your “find window”.
press ctrl + shft + f

you can search [...]

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Navigate To and From function() – Visual Stuido Tip of Week #17

Many a times you find the need to navigate to the function definition from the function call to see how the function has been defined. To do this you can either press F12 or right click on function call and select “Go to definition” option.

Similarly from the function definition to go back to the function [...]

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RexEx Search – Tip of Week #16

Regular expressions are an extremely versatile text-matching language that gives you incredible power when searching your documents and when used with replace operations, can greatly assist with repetitive changes to blocks of code.

The basic regular expression search is easily done. You simply open the Find dialog through the Edit – Find [...]

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Insert Code Snippet – Tip Of Week #15

Hi guys, do you know you can use already ready code inside your visual studio? Yes certainly you can insert code snippets into your code. You can invoke the “Insert Snippet” by using shortcut “ctrl k + ctrl x”.

You can download some of the code snippets from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718338.aspx all you need to do is [...]

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Tasklist Comments / TODO in Visual Studio – Tip Of Week #14

Task list comments are a great way to remind you or others of something that still needs to be done or something that may need to be revisited for enhancement.
The task list (Ctrl-Alt-K/View.TaskList) is a handy tool that is most often used to view errors or warnings from the compilation of [...]

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