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October 29, 2016

Introducing .NET/Visual Studio Power Tips

Over the years that I have been working as a .NET developer and consultant for a large number of different customers, I picked up a lot of simple, yet effective productivity tricks. As of today, there is a new category on my blog called “.NET Power Tips”. I represents a growing list of tips related...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Productivity, Visual Studio

October 28, 2016

.NET Power Tip 20: The Cycle Clipboard Ring in Visual Studio

by Manuel

Copying and pasting is an essential part of every developers life. It is so essential that you can even buy a book with instructions: Ok, jokes aside, Visual Studio offers a great feature called the Cycle Clipboard ring: The clipboard ring remembers every piece of text that you cut or copy from the text editor....CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 26, 2016

.NET Power Tip 19: Copying, Cutting, Pasting and Moving Lines in Visual Studio

by Manuel

I watch many developers deleting and copying code lines in Visual Studio in an unnecessary complicated procedure. They place the cursor inside the line that they need to delete, cut or copy. Then they use either the mouse or the keyboard to expand the selection to the entire line. With the keyboard, that would be:...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 23, 2016

.NET Power Tip 18: Visual Studio Block Selection / Block Copy Mode

by Manuel

Usually, when selecting text in a text editor, the text is selected line by line. This means that if I would hold the mouse button in the middle of a line and drag down, the selection would automatically select the current line to the end and continue with the next line. With block selection it...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 21, 2016

.NET Power Tip 17: Visual Studio Scroll Bar Map Mode

by Manuel

There is an interesting function in Visual Studio hidden in the options menu: Scroll Bar Map Mode. Going to TOOLS –> OPTIONS –> TEXT EDITOR –> ALL LANGUAGES –> SCROLL BARS the scroll bar style can be changed to map mode. There is a shortcut to activate the map mode: Just go to the Quick...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 19, 2016

.NET Power Tip 16: Visual Studio Find in Files

by Manuel

You might be familiar with the standard search functionality in Visual Studio accessible via CTRL-F. Personally, I hardly use it. There is a better alternative: FIND IN FILES. Find in Files can be started with the shortcut CTRL-SHIFT-F. It will open a search window, as usual. The difference is that on enter, it will NOT...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:C#, DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 17, 2016

.NET Power Tip 15: The Call Hierachy Window in Visual Studio

by Manuel

A very useful but little kn own window in VS2015 is the Call Hierarchy Window. It can be used to find dependencies of a method or another member of a class. Executing VIEW CALL HIERARCHY WINDOW (CTRL-K, T) opens the window: In the image, we take a closer look at the AddChild() method. A tree...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 15, 2016

.NET Power Tip 14: Navigation in Visual Studio

by Manuel

This power tip introduces a couple of shortcuts that can be used to navigate through code files in Visual Studio. I am often surprised about how many developers don’t know or don’t use some of the most basic shortcuts. Note that the mentioned key bindings can be different in your edition of Visual Studio....CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, DotNetPowerTip, Visual Studio

October 14, 2016

OpenLiveWriter (OLW) Cannot Detect WordPress Theme

by Manuel

This blog post introduces Open Live Writer and explains how to solve the “Cannot Detect WordPress Theme” problem. If you are a blogger and you don’t know Open Live Writer, it’s time you get to know it. What is Open Live Writer? Open Live Writer (OLW) is the successor of the very, very old...CONTINUE READING

Category:Uncategorized

October 6, 2016

DO NOT REWRITE SOFTWARE FROM SCRATCH!

by Manuel

Today I stumbled upon a GREAT article that I just need to share. The article is “Things You Should Never Do” by Joel Spolsky. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html In case you don’t know Joel Spolsky, he is the founder of stuff like www.trello.com or http://stackoverflow.com and is currently the CEO of Stackoverflow. He is also the...CONTINUE READING

Category:Business

Tag:DotNet, JoelSpolsky, JoelTest, Legacy

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