Tag Results For: Visual Studio 2010

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Quickly Switch To Related Code Or Design File In Visual Studio 2010 [Add-in]

You may know that Visual Studio Solution Explorer not only loads the all the projects in a solution, but also design, code and other related files of the project, allowing you to quickly navigate and open the required file in editor. Opening related files in Visual Studio editor becomes quite tedious, especially when you’re dealing [...] (more…)

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Collapse & Sync Visual Studio 2010 Solution Explorer To Current Item [Add-in]

Exploring project files from Visual Studio Solution Explorer becomes difficult when you’re dealing with multitude of code files. If multiple Projects are present in your Solution, you may find yourself scrolling up and down the Solution Explorer in search of required code files from each project. The best way to avoid this is to streamline [...] (more…)

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Remove Unused References In Visual Studio 2010 With Reference Assistant

Wondering how to remove all the unused references from Visual Studio 2010 document that were never used,in one go? If you find it tedious to follow the classic method of determining the invalid/unused references by compiling the code file and then looking into error Output Console to find and remove each unused reference, Reference Assistant [...] (more…)

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Code Jumper – Jump To Visual Studio 2010 Code Segments & Declarations

Like previous versions, Visual Studio 2010 also has a built-in feature to bookmark segments of code through Find and Replace dialog. The Bookmark feature lets you easily navigate through significant segments of code and declarations by adding blue glyphs in left sidebar. These glyphs helps visually scan the important code modules. But what about navigating [...] (more…)

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BatchFormat – Remove Unused ‘Usings’ And Format Visual Studio Document

Do you often find it challenging to clean code file from unnecessary statements, imported snippets, functions, etc., and also to indent code, sort or remove unused Using directives in Visual Studio document? Visual Studio, just like many other software development IDEs, doesn’t provide features to clean the code file from such superfluous content, which makes [...] (more…)

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Compare Visual Studio 2010 Code Modules With ClipboardDiff

It happens quite often that we come across two apparently same modules in code file opened in Visual Studio. Since comparing code structure in Visual Studio is relatively difficult than other lightweight software IDEs, one has to find other ways than to open two Visual Studio windows to find differences between code structures/modules in question. [...] (more…)

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View And Share Visual Studio 2010 Snippets With SnippetDoc

Code Snippets containing code to perform a certain function help developers in application development process. Visual Studio includes an option to insert snippets in current code file via right-click context menu but doesn’t provide convenience of viewing the saved snippets. Although the previously reviewed add-in for Visual Studio 2010 namely, Snippet Designer offers a handy [...] (more…)

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Pepper – Backup & Sync Visual Studio 2010 Settings File (vssettings)

Visual Studio Settings file (.vssettings) contains a whole lot of configurations and details regarding the current setup and layout of Visual Studio. Unlike other software IDEs, Visual Studio is flexible enough to let users easily modify and replace default settings files with custom one to quickly apply required configurations. Many users share vssettings file with [...] (more…)

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Debug Single Thread Keeps Focus On Single Thread [Visual Studio 2010]

One of the problems which many developers face while building and debugging multi-threaded application is that it often becomes difficult to focus on single thread to check whether thread is working fine or performing required functionality or not. Single thread debugging helps users thoroughly test functional requirements of multi-threaded applications. Even though Visual Studio 2010 [...] (more…)

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SwitchStartupProject Changes Visual Studio 2010 Startup Projects In Solution

Users working with multiple startup projects in a solution have to manually set required project as startup before running the debugger. Switching between startup projects may become tiring for those who frequently debug different projects in their solution. In Visual Studio 2010, the default way to set a project as startup is to right-click the [...] (more…)

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Assign Load Priorities To Projects In Solution In Visual Studio 2010

The reduced solution load time is one amongst many significant improvements of Visual Studio 2010 which provides quicker access to your top priority projects. If you’ve set up load priorities in Visual Studio 2010, you must’ve noticed quicker access to projects while loading an enormous solution having multiple projects. In previous versions, when one huge [...] (more…)

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Locate And Filter Visual Studio 2010 Solution Files With VSSolutionFinder

Visual Studio Solution file is a text-based structured file that defines the project workspace, containing information regarding the project environment and project state. The solution file groups project related information required to compile and build an application. Just like previous Visual Studio version, Visual Studio 2010 doesn’t provide option to locate SLN files from the [...] (more…)

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BreakAll Sets Breakpoint In Every Access To Class [Visual Studio 2010]

Visual Studio Breakpoint feature is considered to be most important tool to debug .Net applications code. Breakpoints is referred to as markers which tells debugger to stop at certain line of code to check whether a defined condition is met or function is performed properly or not. There could be many scenarios where breakpoints help [...] (more…)

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Send Selected Lines Of Code From Visual Studio To PasteBin

The Pastebin desktop client offers a quick way to send text and individual code files to pastebin.com but when it’s required to send selected lines of code from software IDE, like from Visual Studio to pastebin.com, copying code manually to pastebin desktop client is not only time wasting but wearisome task as well. Send to PasteBin is [...] (more…)

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Favorite Documents – Bookmark Visual Studio Code Files & Organize Them

If you’re working on multiple Visual Studio projects, you must be looking for a way to quickly access most frequently used code files of each project without having to close current project. Since Visual Studio  2010 doesn’t offer an option to keep a list of frequently used code files handy, you have to manually open [...] (more…)