 | Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Modes
Visual Studio 2010 includes some improvements to Intellisense. One new feature is the inclusion of two modes of operation. These are the original Intellisense completion mode and the new suggestion mode, which is ideal for test-driven development. |
| Visual Studio Find Selected Text
Visual Studio provides many tools for navigating code. Some of the search tools allow complex queries to be created to isolate specific text within source code. Others, like the one described here, are simplistic but allow very fast movement through text. |
| Visual Studio Insert Blank Lines
The layout of code and the whitespace that surrounds it can improve its readability and maintainability. This whitespace includes entirely blank lines, which can be inserted into code quickly using this simple tip. |
| Launching Visual Studio in Safe Mode
When installing plug-ins or extensions for Visual Studio, it is possible that a misbehaving add-in can cause Visual Studio to crash or to fail to load. In order to remove the offending add-in, Visual Studio can be started in "Safe Mode". |
| Disabling the Visual Studio Splash Screen
Splash screens are often useful, as they appear during the loading process for applications. Some users prefer not to see these screens, which may slow the start-up of an application. The Visual Studio splash screen can easily be disabled if desired. |
| Choosing Visual Studio StartUp Projects
Visual Studio allows many projects to be gathered into a single solution. When using such solutions it is important to be able to identify one or more of the projects as startup items. These projects are started automatically when starting debugging. |
| Visual Studio Sharing Files Between Projects
Normally when an existing file is added to a project within Visual Studio, the file is copied into the project folder. There is an option to link to the file, rather than duplicate it, allowing files to be shared between multiple projects. |
| Changing the Text Case in Visual Studio
Visual Studio includes a number of shortcuts that allow quick changes to code. Among these are two functions that allow the selected text in a code editor window to be quickly capitalised or switched to lower case lettering. |
| Visual Studio Clipboard Ring
Visual Studio supports the standard clipboard features for cutting, copying and pasting code within and between code windows. The Clipboard Ring feature enhances this support by providing a history of items added to the clipboard that may each be pasted. |
| Disabling #region when Implementing Interfaces
When using Visual Studio's Implement Interface command, the automatically added code is contained within a code region by default. As some developers prefer not to use code regions, it can be useful to disable this feature. |