Helpful & Frequently-used hot keys in Visual Studio IDE

This is my list of hot keys which I often used – the list is gradually updated.

Hope you can find it useful.

1. Select a text and Ctrl-F3
   Search for selected text.
   Very useful when you browse the codes, meet some references (method, properties, variable, …) that you want to quickly see other locations it appears.

Nam.

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The addons for Visual Studio that profits me ^_^!

Here are the addons I used and get profit from it:

1. Search Work Items for TFS 2010
   Add searchbox when browsing the work-item query results.
   .
2. CodeRush Xpress
   Code block highlight.
   .
3. CoolX
   Locate current-opened file (in Text Editor) in Solution Explorer.
   Collapse all projects in Solution Explorer – especially useful when your solution has teens of projects and updated very often.
   .
4. Team Foundation Server Power Tools April 2010
   (trying-on) Support finding files under version control by status or wildcard.
   .
5. Microsoft.VisualStudio.XAMLIntellisensePresenter
   (ALT + ,) toggles namespaces filter.
   (ALT + .) togges narrowing filter — only show Intellisense which contain your typed-in Pascal leters.
   Locating an assembly using the xmlns Pascal case IntelliSense.
   .

6. Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools
   Searchable Add Reference Dialog.
   Highlight Current Line.
   Triple Click to select whole line.
   Ctrl + Click Go To Definition.
   Move Line Up/Down Commands (using Alt-up/down)Align Assignments.
   Colorized Parameter Help.

   Tab Arrange.
   .

Enjoy!

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How to install NAntContrib after download it?

Well, it’s so funny that there’s no clue to install it in the package downloaded from their homepage. As one guy felt angry with it here AngryPets.com :: Blog, I felt angry too ^_^!

So, very simple, the solution is just “Just copy everything in the NantContrib\bin directory into Nant\bin“.

Another way is to add some below script to the beginning of your NAnt script, says that you installed NAntContrib to “C:/Program Files/NAntContrib“.

<loadtasks>
	<fileset>
		<include name="C:/Program Files/NAntContrib/bin/**/*.dll" />
	</fileset>
</loadtasks>

D… it NAntContrib :D.

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