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Highlight the file you work with in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

emma — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:15:23 +0000

Visual Studio 2010 Tip – Highlight the file you work with in Solution Explorer Go to Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->General Check the "Track Active Item In Solution Explorer" checkbox. Related posts: Visual Studio Themes and Color Schemes CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio … Continue reading → Related posts:

Remove dead using statements

emma — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:24:25 +0000

Visual Studio has a great feature to easily remove all dead using statements in your code.

The steps are pretty straightforward.

Right click anywhere from the code
Select Organize Using and
Select Remove Unused Usings.

Visual Studio Themes and Color Schemes

emma — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:45:47 +0000

I just came cross this site http://studiostyles.info/ which provides Visual Studio color schemes for free download. All color schemas work for both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Every schema has screenshots so you can see how it looks like before downloading it.

You can follow following steps to import the color schema into Visual Studio.

In Visual Studio, choose Tools > Import and Export Settings
Choose Import Selected Environment Settings and select whether you want to back up your existing settings or not
Click Browse… to choose the file you downloaded.
You get a choice which settings you want to import – choose all of them since the file only contains color settings and won’t touch your other VS settings.
Click Finish and you’ll see the new colors.

Note: if you save the file to My Documents > Visual Studio 2010 > Settings, you’ll have quick access to choose the settings file in step 3 above.

SpellChecker in WPF4 TextBox

emma — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:27:19 +0000

TextBox and RichTextBox in WPF4 has the built in SpellChecker functionality. It’s currently available in following four languages

#LID 1033 – English
#LID 3082 – Spanish
#LID 1031 – German
#LID 1036 – French

Enable SpellChecker functionality on TextBox or RichTextBox is as easy as just setting SpellCheck.IsEnabled to True on the controls.

Then all misspelled words will be underlined with a wavy red line in run time. And when user right clicks on misspelled word, a list of suggestion words will be displayed.

Example

Update

As per this MSDN thread, you need to install language pack for .NET Framework 4.0 to enable spell check for some language in your WPF4 applications. For example, if you want to spell check for German, you need to install .NET Framework 4.0 German language pack on your machine. So far the .NET Framework 4.0 language pack is not available, but it will be soon.

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CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2010

emma — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:23:18 +0000

CopySourceAsHtml is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 that allows you be able to quickly get your code as HTML from Visual Studio, just like being able to save it as a HTML file from the Save As dialog. It’s very helpful if you frequently post code to blog or send code in email.

I recently switched to Visual Studio 2010 and noticed this plug in is not ready for Visual Studio 2010 yet. Here is how you can get it work for Visual Studio before CopySourceAsHtml owner releases an official update to support Visual Studio 2010.

Download latest CopySourceAsHtml msi and install it

By default it will be installed toC:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins
Create a folder named Addins under C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2010 and copy CopySourceAsHtml.AddIn here.
Modify Line #5 and #9 change 9.0 to10.0
Launch Visual Studio 2010 –> Tools –> Addin Manager, if you see CopySourceAsHtml shows up, then it’s enabled successfully.

6. Now you can select the code and get html by clicking Copy As Html

This is an example. CopySourceAsHtml also provides options to show/hide control line number, word wrap and so on.

 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
5
namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// My first application
System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”);
}
}
}

GhostDoc Tutorial

emma — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:28:53 +0000

Earlier I have introduced this excellent comment auto generation tool – GhostDoc. Now you can follow this instructions to get GhostDoc working in just 5 minutes.

Download GhostDoc and install
GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plugin, so after Visual Studio is launched, you’d need to assign a hotkey for automatic comments generation, or just click skip to use default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + D
Right click on any class or method and select Document this, or press hotkey set in step #1
GhostDoc will do best guess and generate the excellent comment for you.

Now don’t document your code any more, just Ctrl+Shift+D it.

Final Visual Studio 2010 available for download

emma — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:57:21 +0000

Visual Studio 2010, the best version of Visual Studio ever, is now available for download in Microsoft download center. The build number for RTM VS2010 and CLR4 is 4.0.30319.1.

Here is link for free trial

Visual Studio 2010 Professional

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Training Resources

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course

Moving to Visual Studio 2010 e-Book

Find Dead Code

emma — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:04:45 +0000

Dead code means block of code that is not reachable in application. They can cause noisy in code debugging and confuse developers. Sometimes I might spend a few hours to figure out why a breakpoint never hit.

Most of code defect is result of old function no longer used and referenced. Remove them will prevent developers from wasting time investigating wrong code. Thanks to FxCop in visual studio, now finding dead code is pretty straight forward.

1. Open application project and in project properties, click Code Analysis tab. Change Rule Set to Microsoft All Rules as in screenshot.

2. Click Menu Analyze –> Run Code Analysis

3. Visual Studio will rebuild projects. FxCop will detect all kind of dead code in build time and report them as following 5 type of warnings. Double click the warning will bring your to the source.

Private methods that are not called from any other code (CA1811)
Unused local variables (CA1804)
Unused private fields (CA1823)
Unused parameters (CA1801)
Internal classes that are not instantiated from any other code (CA1812)

Now have fun getting dead code removed.

Visual Studio plug-in: GhostDoc

emma — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:15:38 +0000

Are your tired of documenting you code using C# /// XmlDoc syntax for each and every method?

It is time for you to meet SubMain’s GhostDoc. SubMain’s GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plug-in the was design just for you. It will parse your method/property/parameters names and will create a great documentation just for you with simple Ctrl+Shift+D.

Download it Free at: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx.

Update 04/21, I have posted a GhostDoc Tutorial, check it out.