Two of my favorite IDE keyboard shortcuts April 13, 2012
Posted by kevinbe71 in IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio.Tags: keyboard shortcut
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Well, this is really only one keyboard shortcut… but for two different IDEs:
1. In Visual Studio you can use Ctrl-, (that’s control + comma key) to bring up a search dialog to find a file by name.
2. In IntelliJ IDEA you can use Ctrl-Shift-N to perform the same action.
In both cases you can use uppercase letters to quickly filter the start of the complete words in the file names. For example, a file called SomeUsefulCssFile.css can be found by typing SUCF or just SUF- leaving out some of the “words” in between still allows the match to occur. Very useful for quickly navigating through code you know well.
Let me know if there are other shortcuts that you find particularly useful…
Visual Studio 11 Beta Locking Up? March 27, 2012
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There could be a corrupt suo file that is causing the problem. Look for it in the same folder as your solution (*.sln) file – it will be named something like Solution1.v11.suo. Exit Visual Studio before deleting the file and then re-open your solution and see if that solves the problem.
Visual Studio 11 Dropping Macros? December 1, 2011
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Every IDE I’ve used has had some kind of record and playback macro capability but apparently that is about to change… VS 11 preview doesn’t have this capability and it seems that is the final decision on the matter according to Microsoft. Please comment on this post if you find macro recording and playback useful in the IDE you’re using (not that I expect this to reach a large audience but I’d just like to hear other developer’s thoughts on the matter).
