Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Sara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Visual studio.

Web site design.

Web site development.

Local Subjects:

Microsoft Visual studio.

Web site design.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : Microsoft Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Unlock the secrets of Visual Studio-learning hundreds of tips and shortcuts for optimizing the editor, search, navigation, windows layouts, and other capabilities. As a member of the Visual Studio Core Team, the author analyzed nearly every feature in the core environment-unearthing the tips and tweaks that streamline work and maximize efficiency. Get practical insights into how IDE features work, and how to quickly adapt them for any programming language. Accelerate your productivity with Sara's Top Six Tips-and hundreds more: Avoid accidentally copying blank lines</l

Contents:

Cover; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; How This Book Happened; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; System Requirements; Contact the Author; Support for This Book; Tip 0.0: How to Look Up, Change, or Create Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts; What Will This Keyboard Shortcut Do?; What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for This Command?; How to Create or Change a Keyboard Shortcut; Where Are the Keyboard Shortcut Reference Posters?; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Get Back to Basics with Your Editor; Basic Editing; Text Editing

Tip 1.1: How to not accidentally copy a blank lineTip 1.2: How to cycle through the Clipboard ring to paste different things; Tip 1.3: You can use Ctrl+Enter to insert a line above and Ctrl+Shift+Enter to insert a line below; Tip 1.4: You can use Ctrl+W to select the current word; Tip 1.5: You can use Ctrl+Delete to delete the next word and Ctrl+Backspace to delete the preceding word; Tip 1.6: You can use Ctrl+L to cut the current line and Ctrl+Shift+L to delete the current line; Tip 1.7: How to delete horizontal white space at the beginning of a line

Tip 1.8: You can drag code or text to a new locationTip 1.9: You can right-drag code to Move Here or Copy Here; Tip 1.10: How to transpose characters, words, and lines in the editor; Tip 1.11: You can use a keyboard shortcut to uppercase or lowercase a word in the editor; Undo/Redo; Tip 1.12: How to use the Undo stack on the standard toolbar; Scrolling and Navigation; Scrolling; Tip 1.13: How to use the mouse wheel for scrolling in all directions; Tip 1.14: How to jump to the top or bottom of the current view in the editor without scrolling

Tip 1.15: You can hide the vertical and horizontal scroll bars in the editorNavigating Within and Among Editors; Tip 1.16: How to navigate forward and backward in the editor all because of go-back markers; Tip 1.17: How to use Undo to jump the cursor back to the last insertion point; Tip 1.18: How to reach the navigation bar via the keyboard; Tip 1.19: How to split a window and create new windows; Tip 1.20: You can use F6 to jump between split panes in the editor; Tip 1.21: How to enable URL navigation within the editor; Tip 1.22: How to use Ctrl+G without the Go To Line dialog box popping up

Word Wrap versus Virtual SpaceTip 1.23: How to enable word wrap; Tip 1.24: How to enable virtual space; Editor Fonts and Colors; Font Size; Tip 1.25: How to increase the editor's ToolTip font size; Tip 1.26: You can bind macros to keyboard shortcuts (or, "How to quickly increase or decrease your text editor font size""); Fonts and Colors; Tip 1.27: How to change the editor background to black; Tip 1.28: What's the difference between Automatic and Default in Tools-Options-Enviorment-Fonts And Colors?; Tip 1.29: How to change a bookmark color; Visual Cues

Tip 1.30: How to track changes in the editor

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780735636262

0735636265

OCLC:

311520890