Showing posts with label Visual Studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Studio. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Customised Search Results in Visual Studio

Are you constantly annoyed by the very long File path in the Find Results Window when searching through the File/Project/Solution in Visual Studio?

I found a registry hack to shorten the display path:

1) Type Regedit in "Run"
2) Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Find
3) Add a new string item called Find result format with a value of $f$e($l,$c):$t\r\n

And here’s the full list of items you can specify in the registry

Files
$p path
$f filename
$v drive/unc share
$d dir
$n name
$e .ext

Location
$l line
$c col
$x end col if on first line, else end of first line
$L span end line
$C span end col

Text
$0 matched text
$t text of first line
$s summary of hit
$T text of spanned lines

Char
\n newline
\s space
\t tab
\\ slash
\$ $

Modify at your own risk! Please back up your registry before making any changes.

How to create a throwaway project in Visual Studio

If you need to create a temp project to try things out in Visual Studio without auto saving it into the Projects directory, go to
1) Tools
2) Options
3) Projects and Solutions
4) General
5) Uncheck (Save new project when created)

Thats it!

Visual Studio 2010 & .Net 4 Beta 2 is Out

Visual Studio 2010 is out and will be made available for download starting Wednesday, and immediately for MSDN Subscriber.

As per Scott Gu's blog, here is an overview of the product lineup specifications:

VS 2010 Product Line SKU Simplifications

With VS 2010 we are simplifying the product lineup and pricing options of Visual Studio, as well as adding new benefits for MSDN subscribers. With VS 2010 we will now ship a simpler set of SKU options:

  • Visual Studio Express: Free Express SKUs for Web, VB, C#, and C++
  • Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN: Professional development tools as you are used to today with the addition of source control integration, bug tracking, build automation, and more. It also includes 50 hours/month of Azure cloud computing.
  • Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN: Premium has everything in Professional plus advanced development tools (including richer profiling and debugging, code coverage, code analysis and testing prioritization), advanced database support, UI testing, and more. Rather than buying multiple “Team” SKUs like you would with VS 2008, you can now get this combination of features in one box with VS 2010. It also includes 100 hours/month of Azure cloud computing.
  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN: Ultimate has everything in Premium plus additional advanced features for developers, testers, and architects including features like Intellitrace (formerly Historical Debugging), the new architecture tools (UML, discovery), test lab management, etc. It also includes 250 hours/month of Azure cloud computing.
Additionally, Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 has be released with main changes for better Visual Studio 2010 integration. Click here to get it http://silverlight.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=30514#ReleaseFiles