On the Tools – Options – Text Editor – File Extension page, you can map a file extension to one of the included editors.
And after mapping the .sara extension to a C# editor, we now get syntax highlight…
There is also an option to map files without extensions to a specific editor.
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Honestly, I had to ask around what this one did. I couldn’t remember to save my life.
Automatic Delimiter Highlighting
Whenever you have code construct pairs (that’s what the documentation calls them), when you finish typing either the start or end pair, both pairs of words will become bold. To turn off this feature, go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – General
Customizing the Automatic Delimiter Highlighting
You can customize the color for the bolding by going to Tools – Options – Fonts and Colors and selecting Brace Matching (Highlight).
then volia… (i knew that french degree would pay off one day)
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I think I’ve blogged myself into a recursion.
http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2007/11/28/first-day-at-devteach.aspx
Okay, i’ve made it to Canada. Although make sure you know where "home" is for border patrol. "Where’s home?" "NeSeattle." I nearly said new orleans, but caught myself and still got through.
In about an hour, i’m going to be on the open source panel at DevTeach as the only blue badge. Wish me luck =)
And Beth, you owe me beer.
At first, when I heard "come down to Vancouver", i thought Vancouver, WA. I didn’t realize they were talking about Canada. Thankfully, i looked up the address of the conference hotel before heading south. The conference http://www.devteach.com is actually in Canada.
I’ve never driven across the border before by myself (and i think i’ve only been to canada 3 times previously since i moved out here). Should be interesting, as if it can happen to me, it will happen to me in the craziest possible way, so i’m going to give myself a 5 hour buffer to cross the border =)
Hey, you know you went back for a third helping at thanksgiving. So what could follow a Tip of the Day Browser?
How’s about a Tip of the Day Windows Sidebar Gadget! Special thanks to Rob Caron for making this happen. I didn’t write the gadget… i just supplied the content =P
Hope you all enjoyed your extra servings Turkey Day specials (a week late, but we are all still eating left-overs.)
Docked State
Full Tip Flyout
Undocked (shows last 5 tips)
So what Turkey Day was last week? No reason why we can’t have a second helping of tip of the day… but as an add-in!
Beth Massi, our VB community expert, wrote a Tip of the Day Browser. But even better, she’s got a Let’s Build an Add-In walkthrough, which she’s demo’ed at the DevTeach conference.
Pretty cool. I know i’m very happy to have an easy way to browse all of my tips. Thanks Beth!!
In a previous tip, we learned more than we ever wanted to know about go-back markers. Insertion points are slightly different. They are similar to the go-back markers, but it is anywhere you click the mouse or jump the cursor to. The go-back marker 10 line rule doesn’t apply.
To give it a try, just click somewhere, then click somewhere else (or do a find or a goto if you’re using the keyboard), then press undo. You’ll move back to that previous location.
The option can be found at Tools – Options – Text Editor – General
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Wow, I had recorded this the other day, because hey, it’s a Highlander movie with Adrian Paul, and finally got around to watching it.
Signs you shouldn’t do yet another highlander movie
There were others, but these were the most painful for me to watch.
I hope this tip’s title makes sense. The idea is that you select some text and then hit escape. Where do you want the cursor to go?
If you want it to stay where it is, that’s the default behavior. But if you want it to jump to the beginning of the selection (i.e. the selection anchor), you need to go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – General and check the Go to selection anchor after escape.
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It’s time for an old favorite from the Visual Studio 2005 days…
Remember How to search using the Ctrl+D Window from one of the earlier tips? Now let’s have a little more fun…
Press Ctrl+D to go to the Find Combo Box and then…
And to continue from yesterday’s tip on command aliases…
Thanks to ShawnFa over on the .NET Security Blog for the tip!
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