 | Visual Studio Tab Settings
Indentation is essential to ensure that source code is easy to read. Visual Studio provides several configuration options that control the insertion of tab and space characters. This article describes the available options and their usage. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox Search
Each new release of the .NET framework introduces new controls and components that may be displayed in a toolbox within Visual Studio. To allow the desired component to be quickly found, Visual Studio 2010 has introduced a toolbox search feature. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Call Hierarchy
Visual Studio 2010 includes a number of navigation enhancements over previous versions. In this article, the Call Hierarchy feature is described. This allows developers to quickly and recursively browse calls made to and from a member. |
| Visual Studio Find All References
It is common to wish to find all of the places in a project or solution where a particular symbol, such as a class or method, is used. This can be essential before performing manual refactoring. Visual Studio's Find All References command makes this easy. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor Support
Support for developers with more than one monitor was limited in Visual Studio 2008 and earlier versions, only permitting tool windows to be undocked from the integrated development environment. Multi-monitor support is improved with Visual Studio 2010. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Reference Highlighting
Visual Studio 2010 includes several new enhancements over previous versions. One of the new features is reference highlighting, which colours all instances of a symbol within the current document and allows fast navigation between them. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Navigate To
Visual Studio 2010 includes several enhanced means for navigating code. The 'Navigate to' command allows types, such as classes and structs, and their members to be quickly located using an incremental search of an entire solution. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Improvements
Visual Studio 2010 provides a feature named Intellisense, which displays suggestions for keywords, classes, structures and member names as code is entered into the editor. Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense offers several improvements over previous versions. |
| Visual Studio 2010 Recent Projects Improvements
Visual Studio 2010 includes many improvements over earlier versions of the integrated development environment (IDE). Some of the first improvements that may be seen on launching Visual Studio are the changes to the Recent Projects list. |
| Auto-Load File Changes in Visual Studio
When files are shared between Visual Studio projects, it is common for those files to be changed by other users or in other editing software. Visual Studio can be configured to detect these changes and reload source code automatically. |