Category Archives: Visual Studio

Visual Studio: Multiple startup projects

I have just been blessed with knowledge from 11 times MVP Chris Crowe. I was down in IS Land, complaining about how Visual Studio became unstable when debugging many instances of the same solution. And Chris drops the bombshell that … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2005 can do directory based search

One of the features I thought was lost in Visual Studio 2005, directory/file based searches, is not! When you bring up Files In Files (Ctrl+Shift+F, Edit.FindinFiles) you can type in the path straight Or you can click on the Epsilon … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is out…

From Darryl I learnt Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is out. Damn it, I had only just gotten Beta 1 installed and working how I liked in my VPC at work. Well I’m excited really about the new version, but … Continue reading

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Visual Studio keyboard mappings lost.

After installing DirectX SDK (April 2007) I have lost my keyboard mappings in Visual Studio. Del and Delete, Arrows Enter all don’t work. I have done a repair on Visual Studio (only took an hour) and that didn’t fix it. … Continue reading

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Visual Studio: Code Definition Window

In the process of trying to do a Format Selection (Ctrl+E, F) I butter fingered the Code Definition Window (Ctrl+W, D) open. Now this is a really cool window (for C++ and C#) that shows the definition code of the … Continue reading

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