 | Set the Visual Studio Start Page News Channel
When Visual Studio is launched, the start page is displayed. This page includes an area that is populated with up-to-date information from an RSS feed. If desired, the location of this feed can be changed to download alternative information. |
| Visual Studio Help Source
Visual Studio provides information relating to the .NET framework classes and the associated programming languages using context-sensitive and menu-driven help. The information can be obtained from the local machine or downloaded from the Internet. |
| Visual Studio Visible White Space
In some programming and scripting languages, configuration files and markup languages, white space can be significant. To ensure that a file contains the correct use of tabs and spaces, you can make these characters visible in Visual Studio. |
| Visual Studio Word Wrap
When working with a Visual Studio code editor and using a low-resolution display, it can be difficult to see the full length of lines of source code. This problem can be alleviated by enabling the code editor's word wrap and visual glyphs settings. |
| Track Active Item in Visual Studio Solution Explorer
Visual Studio's Solution Explorer provides a logical and simple tool for navigating the elements of a solution or project. It can be improved for some configurations of the integrated development environment by enabling tracking of the active item. |
| Visual Studio Virtual Space
When using Visual Studio's default settings, lines of code are terminated with a carriage return and placing the caret beyond the end of a line is impossible. By enabling virtual space, the caret can be moved to any position, including unused areas. |
| Reset Visual Studio Settings
When Visual Studio is run for the first time the user can select from several options that determine the default settings for the development environment. This article explains how to reset Visual Studio to allow this selection to be made again. |
| Visual Studio Font and Colour Schemes
The standard fonts and colours presented by Visual Studio are acceptable but some find that the Courier typeface is difficult to read or that the contrast between black text and white background is harsh. Luckily, the fonts and colours can be changed. |
| Creating GUIDs in Visual Studio
Globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) have many uses for software developers. When a single unique ID is required, one can be randomly generated using Visual Studio's Create GUID command. This article describes the required steps to achieve this. |
| Visual Studio Incremental Search
Visual Studio provides several tools to allow you to quickly locate text within a file, project or solution. This article describes the Incremental Search feature, which permits fast searching of a file with no interaction with dialog boxes required. |