Visual Studio 2012 Tips and Tricks

2. Visual Studio Tips and tricks Marcel de Vries Alex Thissen Gerard van der Pol
3. New in VS2012
4. Preview Tab • Peek into selected file in Solution Explorer • Keep open only if desired
5. Quick Launch • Shortcut: Ctrl+Q • Menus, options, • Limit search by using filter – @opt – @menu – @mru – @doc • Possible to create additinoal filters
6. Visual Studio IDE
7. Task list
8. Editor
9. All time classic shortcuts Copy line Ctrl+C without selection Cycle clipboard ring Ctrl+Shift+V Previous source code line Ctrl+ - Show SmartTag Ctrl+. Navigate To Ctrl+, Opening/closing tag Ctrl+[
10. Power editing • Press Alt to enable vertical selection
11. Debugging
12. Breakpoints and code flow • Conditional breakpoints • DataTip (including pinning) • Virtual breakpoint (Run to) • Set Next Statement (drag yellow arrow) • TracePoints
13. Power debugging • Setup symbol server – Debug into Microsoft assemblies • WinDbg from Visual Studio
14. Summary
15. Questions and Answers