Category: Tips & Tricks
Code Refactoring (Software Gardening – Pruning)
Create Bookmarklets – The Right Way – Tuts+ Code Tutorial
“Bookmarkets can be defined as mini applications masquerading as tiny snippets of JavaScript awesomeness that reside in your browser and provide additional functionalities to a web page.
Today, we’re going to look into creating bookmarklets from scratch and on the way, some best practices to follow.”
via Create Bookmarklets – The Right Way – Tuts+ Code Tutorial.
Tell Chrome Developer Tools to use a dark theme – howchoo
Tell Chrome Developer Tools to use a dark theme – howchoo.
Themes for Chrome Developer Tools:
http://devthemez.com/themes/chrome-developer-tools?sort=downloads
visual studio – Why does debugging keep timing out in IIS7? – Stack Overflow
IIS Add to Hosts File Extension
“Here’s a simple module to solve a recurrent and an annoying everyday task in IIS management: creating an entry in the Windows TCP/IP Hosts file for every demo and test web site.
This module extends the IIS Manager UI in order to add an entry on request in the Hosts file located in%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts when a web site is created or its bindings are edited.”
IIS Hosts File Manager – Home.
Newer working link:
https://github.com/richardszalay/iishosts
osx – How to Install Windows 8.1 on Haswell Mac? – Ask Different
15 Resharper keyboard shortcuts you need to know ~ Helper Code
Visual Studio and ReSharper favorite keyboard shortcuts and snippets
These commands applies to Visual Studio 2012, will probably work in newer versions as well. The Resharper commands are using standard “Visual Studio” keyboard scheme.
Resharper
Used often
Shift+Alt+L (Locate current file in Solution Explorer)
Alt+F7 (Find usages of a class, method or variable in solution)
Ctrl+Click (Goto definition)
Alt+(+) (Alt and plus-key, find members within current file)
Ctrl+T (Goto type, symbol or file name)
Alt+Shift+T (Goto symbol)
Ctrl+Alt+Space (Smart autocomplete for current code)
Alt+Enter (Action list for code at caret)
Ctrl+Shift+R (Refactor this, selected text)
Shift+alt+pgdown – Next error in current file
Shift+alt+pgup – Previous error in current file
Used rarely
Ctrl+Shift+F1 Quick documentation (e.g. small help window for current html/code at caret)
Ctrl+R+R (Rename type/symbol with preview)
Ctrl+Shift+T (Goto file)
Ctrl+, (Recent files)
Ctrl+Shift+, (Recent edits)
Visual Studio
Used often
Ctrl+F (Find in current file)
Ctrl+Shift+F (Find in files)
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D (Format document)
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F (Format selection)
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C Comment line/selection
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U Uncomment line/selection
Ctrl+Click (With popular extensions Goto definition or Productivity Power Tools)
F12 (Goto definition)
Ctrl+L (Remove line/selection)
Ctrl+D (Duplicate line/selection)
Ctrl+G (Goto line)
Ctrl+Mousewheel (Set editor zoomlevel, a great plugin that keeps zoomlevel consistent in all windows is TroutZoom)
Used rarely
Alt+F1 (MSDN documentation)
Ctrl+Q (Quickfind vs2012+ and with some extension vs2010)
Alt + Select vertical lines with mouse (Expands caret across several lines, insert text on several lines simultaneously)
Ctrl+shift+alt up/down move symbol (e.g method, props etc. within current class/file)
Ctrl+shift+alt left/right move method parameters within method definition.
Ctrl+B (Toggle breakpoint)
Ctrl+Alt+B (Breakpoints list)
Back and forward mouse button (goto to prev/next edit code position)
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+X (Insert snippet)
Left mouse button “triple click” – (Select entire line in vs2012+)
Snippets (enter text and then double tab-key):
nguid – Insert new GUID (Inside a string type: “nguid” and press tab tab)
prop – Insert a shorthand get set property
propfull – Insert a complete get set property with backing private field
ctor – create an parameterless constructor in the class.
Custom keyboard shortcuts
You can add your own keyboard shortcuts through Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard.
I have added the following:
Ctrl+Alt+B (Build.BuildSelection – this builds the “current” project and not the entire solution).
Ctrl+F12 (Tools.AttachtoIIS – this is a Visual Studio plugin, AttachTo which attaches the debugger to the projects IIS website)
Ctrl+Shift+G (Set keyboard shortcut to Edit.NavigateTo)
To customize the next and previous position re-map keyboard shortcuts to View.NavigateBackward and View.NavigateForward respectively. Use Ctrl+(-) (Ctrl and minuskey, navigate to previous position) Ctrl+(+) (Ctrl and pluskey, navigate to next position) for instance.
ReSharper Visual Studio scheme keymap
New to ReSharper? A great tip from a colleague of mine is to try to learn a few keyboard shortcuts everyday.
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/docs/ReSharper80DefaultKeymap_VS_scheme.pdf
Visual Studio 2013 really slow when pasting inside ASPX files solved
Whenever I pasted some code in my aspx pages inside Visual Studio got this dialog:
To solve this, I just deleted all the files from this folder:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebSiteCache
Perhaps do a backup first (zip file etc).
Solution from here:
via Slow Visual Studio Performance … Solved! | Geocortex Blog.