Visual Studio Hacks

James Avery has been programming with Microsoft technologies for the last 7 years and has been working with .NET since the second beta release. He is currently working as a consultant in the Cincinnati area building enterprise-level .NET applications. James has worked on a number of different books, most recently ASP.NET Setup and Configuration Pocket Reference for Microsoft Press. He's also written articles for MSDN magazine, ASPToday, and is a frequent blogger. James has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, and is an MCSD.NET.

• Credits Preface Chapter 1. Master Projects and Solutions; 1. Manage Projects and Solutions 2. Master Assembly and Project References 3. Organize Projects and Solutions 4. Hack the Project and Solution Files 5. Remove SourceSafe Bindings Chapter 2. Master the Editor 6. Master the Clipboard 7. Make Pasting into Visual Studio Easier 8. Master IntelliSense 9. Master Regions; 10. Add Guidelines to the Text Editor 11. Select the Best Editor; 12. Customize Syntax Coloring 13. Edit the Most Recent File and Project Lists 14. Refactor Your Code 15. Use and Share Code Snippets Chapter 3. Navigating Visual Studio 16. Take Control of Your Workspace 17. Find Files Quickly 18. Search Files Quickly 19. Search for Patterns in Your Files 20. Navigate Your Source Code 21. Never Forget a TODO Again 22. Hack the Mouse; 23. Enhance the Tabs in Visual Studio Chapter 4. Customizing Visual Studio 24. Create Your Own Shortcuts 25. Customize Menus and Toolbars 26. Create Custom Window Layouts 27. Customize the Toolbox 28. Package Your Toolbox Settings 29. Add Support for Nonstandard File Extensions 30. Hack the Registry 31. Save and Move Your IDE Settings 32. Enable IntelliSense for HTML and XML Documents 33. Add an External Tool 34. Customize Your Project Build Process 35. Modify the Build Output and Navigate the Results; Chapter 5. Debugging 36. Set Breakpoints 37. Troubleshoot Breakpoints 38. Customize Visual Studio's Reaction to Exceptions; 39. Debug Scripting Code 40. Debug SQL Server 41. Debug a Running Process 42. Debug a Failing Application 43. Write a Custom Visualizer Chapter 6. Speed Hacks 44. Speed Up Visual Studio; 45. Load Files from the Command Prompt 46. Master the Command Window; 47. Build a Custom Tool 48. Extend the Application Configuration File 49. Generate Strongly Typed DataSets 50. Define Templates for Generating Code 51. Create a Macro; 52. Generate Code with Macros 53. Create Connection Strings Quickly; 54. Quickly Sign Assemblies 55. Update Project References Quickly; 56. Automatically Add using and Imports Statements 57. Insert Commonly Used Code Automatically 58. Move Quickly Between Source Control Providers Chapter 7. Help and Research 59. Get Help; 60. Search the Internet from Visual Studio 61. Redirect Help to Google 62. Use P/Invoke with Ease 63. Examine the IL Generated by Your Code 64. Examine the Innards of Assemblies 65. Follow the Rules with FxCop 66. Generate Statistics on Your C# Code 67. Profile Heap Allocations Chapter 8. Comments and Documentation; 68. Master C# XML Comments 69. Create Comments Faster 70. Create XML Comments with VB.NET 71. Create Documentation from XML Comments; 72. Integrate Your Own Documentation into Visual Studio Chapter 9. Server Explorer Hacks 73. Access Performance Counters 74. Diagram and Modify a Database 75. Script Your Database 76. Enumerate Processes, Drives, Shares, and More Chapter 10. Work with Visual Studio Tools 77. Master the Visual Studio Command Prompt 79. Stress Test Web Applications 80. Obfuscate Your Code 81. Generate Code from UML 82. Generate UML Design Documents from Code Chapter 11. Visual Studio Tools for Office 83. Install Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 84. Create a Command Bar in Word 2003 85. Display a Windows Form from Excel 2003 Chapter 12. Extending Visual Studio; 86. Automate Visual Studio 87. Access Visual Studio from Standalone Applications 88. Create a File Template 89. Writing a Visual Studio Add-in 90. Find the Name of That Command Bar 91. Change the Icon for Your Add-in Chapter 13. Enhancing Visual Studio; 92. Manage Add-ins 93. Run Unit Tests Inside Visual Studio; 94. Spellcheck Your Code and Comments 95. View an Outline of Your Controls 96. Blog Code from Visual Studio 97. Collapse and Expand Your Code 98. Combine the Visual Studio Command Prompt and the Command Window 99. Generate Web Services Code 100. Test Regular Expressions in Visual Studio Index