Visual Studio Tips

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Visual Studio Tips

• ASP.net Tips, Visual Studio Tips and useful
  plug-ins
• -Shoban Kumar

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Have emails sent to a folder

• ltsystem.netgt    ltmailSettingsgt        ltsmtp
  deliveryMethod"SpecifiedPickupDirectory"gt     
        ltspecifiedPickupDirectory
  pickupDirectoryLocation"c\Temp\" /gt       
  lt/smtpgt    lt/mailSettingsgt
• lt/system.netgt

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app_offline.htm

• ASP.NET 2.0 will shut-down the application and
  stop normal processing any new incoming requests
  for that application, showing only the contents
  of the app_offline.htm file for all new requests.

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Go To Definition

• Click an identifier (class name, variable, etc)
  then hit F12 for
• "Go To Definition".
• Then you can use Ctrl - control minus to jump
  back to where you were.

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You can drag code to the ToolBox!
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Free image library

• C\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
  9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary

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Line numbers in Editor

• Tools -gt Options -gt Text Editor -gt All Languages
  -gt General
• Check Line numbers

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view code that is covered by the IntelliSense
pop-up

• Press and hold Ctrl key

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Useful .net applications

• Reflector
• Class browser, analyzer, decompiler for .NET
• http//www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

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Useful .net applications

• Expresso
• Regular expression development tool
• http//www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

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Useful .net applications

• LINQPad
• LINQPad is also a great way to learn LINQ it
  comes preloaded with 200 examples from the book,
  C 3.0 in a Nutshell.
• http//www.linqpad.net/

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Useful .net applications

• Fiddler
• Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all
  HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the
  Internet.
• http//www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

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Useful .net Plug-ins

• ReSharper
• instant solutions for found errors, over 30
  advanced code refactorings, superior unit testing
  tools, handy navigation and search features,
  single-click code formatting and cleanup,
  automatic code generation and templates, and a
  lot more productivity features for C, VB.NET,
  ASP.NET, XML, and XAML
• http//www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

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Useful .net applications

• Visual Studio Theme generator
• http//frickinsweet.com/tools/Theme.mvc.aspx

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Useful .net Plug-ins

• PDFsharp
• PDFsharp is the Open Source library that easily
  creates PDF documents from any .NET language.
• http//pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp/

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Useful .net Plug-ins

• Krypton Toolkit
• Free Windows Forms Controls
• http//www.componentfactory.com/free-windows-forms
  -controls.php

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Useful .net Plug-ins

• Flickr.Net API Library
• The Flickr.Net API is a .Net Library for
  accessing the Flickr API. Written entirely in C
  it can be accessed from with any .Net language
• http//flickrnet.codeplex.com/

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Useful .net Plug-ins

• ReCaptcha
• The reCAPTCHA ASP.NET Library provides a simple
  way to place a CAPTCHA on your ASP.NET website,
  helping you stop bots from abusing it.
• http//recaptcha.net/plugins/aspnet/

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Start VS without Splash Screen

• from cmd line, run devenv.exe /nosplash
• It loads Visual Studio 2008 slightly faster
  because theres no pause for you to read the
  splash screen.

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VS in Full Screen

• You can quickly toggle into Full Screen mode by
  pressing
• Shift Alt Enter.

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change the default browser used in VS 2005

• Right click on a .aspx page in your solution
  explorer
• Select the "browse with" context menu option
• In the dialog you can select or add a browser. If
  you want Firefox in the list, click "add" and
  point to the firefox.exe filename
• Click the "Set as Default" button to make this
  the default browser when you run any page on the
  site.

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Thank you!!!!

• Shoban Kumar
• shobankr_at_gmail.com
• www.codegeeks.net
• www.dotnetcurry.com
• http//twitter.com/shobankr