March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
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Chapter 4
CHAPTER FOUR
Customizing Visual Studio
Hacks 24–35
Customizing Visual Studio is a great way to get the most out of this applica-
tion. Through the course of using an application, you sometimes realize that
it would be a lot easier if there were a shortcut key for this command or per-
haps a toolbar item for that command. One of the nice things about Visual
Studio is that, for the most part, you can customize just about any part of
the IDE.
The hacks in this chapter cover how to create your own shortcut keys, cus-
tomize menus and toolbars, create custom windows layouts, customize the
toolbox, and much more.
Visual Studio saves many of its settings only when you exit
Visual Studio. This is important to remember if you are run-
ning more than one instance of Visual Studio. If you close
the version of Visual Studio you have customized before you
close the other instance, the latter instance overwrites your
changes.
HACK
#24
Create Your Own Shortcuts Hack #24
Visual Studio lets you do a lot with the keyboard configuration. You can
customize the keyboard mapping and even copy these mappings from one
machine to another.
Keyboard shortcut keys are a big part of working with Visual Studio.
Throughout this book, we have identified a number of different shortcuts
that are in Visual Studio by default, but in this hack you will learn how to
create new shortcuts as well as edit the existing shortcut keys. ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.