I recently ran into an issue where Visual Studio decided to right align my menus when I opened them. No other application on my PC had this issue and I never changed any settings on my PC either. The fix to this isn't as straight forward as updating...
This weeks Friday Dev Tip is a quick one but very useful. When using Visual Studio (2013 or greater), pressing and holding the Ctrl key when the Intellisense tooltip appears will make it go transparent so you can see any code underneath it. No more pressing Esc and having to...
Right after I install Visual Studio, my next port of call is to update VS to automatically highlight the current file I'm working on in the Solution Explorer. This can be handy if you need to quick find the file you're working on to figure out...
One of the first things I do when setting up my Visual Studio environment is to set up pinned tabs so they display on a new line. It helps to visually separate out your tabs and gives your unpinned tabs more screen real estate which can only be a good...
Usually when I'm coding I'm using the latest and greatest tech but sometimes I have a need to use a specific version of a plugin or framework for backward compatability with a Visual Studio project. I ran into an issue the other day where I needed...
I've noticed that some members of my team were having difficulties with Visual Studio when using resource files. Any time they would open a file it would crash Visual Studio. As you can imagine this was very frustrating for all involved. After a quick search I found a...
I actually really like how Visual Studio renames my ID values when pasting content to ensure that all ID values are unique - as they should be. However, the designers on my team always give me a hard time over this as they say it slows them down and that...