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How to quickly comment or uncomment lines of code in Visual Studio
When I am developing I am always trying to reduce the amount of time that my hands come off of the keyboard and have to move to the mouse.  One of the frequent functions that I noticed required me to move my hand off of the keyboard to the mouse...
Posted 27 October 2009 10:37 PM by Jeff Widmer | 3 comment(s)
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Machine Setup: How to enable Line Numbers in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio
I like to have line numbers visible when working in both Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio.  By default, line numbers are turned off in both environments.  One of the first things I do when setting up a new development machine is...
Posted 23 October 2009 09:16 PM by Jeff Widmer | 1 comment(s)
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How to quickly format a C# class file – Ctrl-K, Ctrl-D
In C# as you are typing in a class file the indenting of your code can easily get out of alignment making the code hard to read.  Where does your class, if block, or method begin and end?? You can manually go and fix each line but there is a much...
Posted 21 October 2009 08:57 PM by Jeff Widmer | 3 comment(s)
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Use Ctrl+. (period) to trigger Visual Studio’s automatic add using statement context menu
When you type class names that are missing the correct namespace reference, Visual Studio will help you out by giving you a context menu that you can use to automatically add the correct using statement to the top of your class. For instance, in the example...
Posted 20 October 2009 10:08 PM by Jeff Widmer | 1 comment(s)
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osql.exe and unicode files – how to save your sql scripts with encoding
osql.exe is a great application for running sql scripts in a batch.  I use a batch file to execute multiple sql scripts that I use to rebuild my current application database from scratch.  When developing a brand new application, deploying a...
Posted 14 October 2009 09:43 AM by Jeff Widmer | 2 comment(s)
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Use Alt-key to select arbitrary block of text in Visual Studio
One of the my most favorite tips/tricks for Visual Studio is the ability to copy and paste an arbitrary block on text in the Source View by pressing and holding the Alt-key while dragging your mouse.  A quick example is the best way to describe it...
Posted 30 August 2009 09:31 PM by Jeff Widmer | 1 comment(s)
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Visual Studio paste without changing IDs in Source View
When pasting a snippet of HTML into the Visual Studio source window, Visual Studio will automatically change the IDs to the default naming convention (TextBox1, etc.). Most of the time though I do not want this to happen since I purposely want to have...
Posted 27 August 2009 09:31 PM by Jeff Widmer | 7 comment(s)
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Unexpected error encountered opening Visual Studio project
I recently tried to open a Visual Studio project that I had downloaded from Codeplex and received an error message: Followed by this error message: And then the Visual Studio project was not available in the solution.  All the project said was “The...
Posted 25 August 2009 09:47 PM by Jeff Widmer | 1 comment(s)
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Why does Visual Studio not resolve my CSS class names?
Whenever I was working in Visual Studio I always found that it would not resolve the css class names in my html.   The CSS Class names would appear with the green squiggly line in Visual Studio but then the page would render fine when viewing...
Posted 07 June 2009 06:00 AM by Jeff Widmer | 2 comment(s)
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