Visual Studio tip of the day (Up/Down arrow hotkey for Intellisense)
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It's never been that high on my priority list, but for years I've thought it would be handy if there was a way to change the selected item in the intellisense popup without having to move your hand from the usual typing position. I always thought you'd need a keyboard with thumb-keys and re-map them. Anyway I've just managed to solve it another way, with AutoHotKey[^] - and it really seems to do the trick! (This tool lets you script hotkeys and do pretty much anything in response). Set up the following in the hotkey script:
^+J:: Send {Up} ^+K:: Send {Down}What that will do is simulate the Down key when you hit Ctrl-Shift-K, and Up key for Ctrl-Shift-J. Should be a nice little time saver... and I don't believe there's any way to do this within Visutal Studio."For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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It's never been that high on my priority list, but for years I've thought it would be handy if there was a way to change the selected item in the intellisense popup without having to move your hand from the usual typing position. I always thought you'd need a keyboard with thumb-keys and re-map them. Anyway I've just managed to solve it another way, with AutoHotKey[^] - and it really seems to do the trick! (This tool lets you script hotkeys and do pretty much anything in response). Set up the following in the hotkey script:
^+J:: Send {Up} ^+K:: Send {Down}What that will do is simulate the Down key when you hit Ctrl-Shift-K, and Up key for Ctrl-Shift-J. Should be a nice little time saver... and I don't believe there's any way to do this within Visutal Studio."For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Thanks ! AutoHotKey seems like an awesome tool. I just moved to VS 2005 from VC6 (I know !!) The gradient menus and buttons are killing me. Is there any way to disable all gradient menus and buttons and get a clean gray look like VC 6 ? I tried to put off moving away from VC6 as long as possible. Unfortunately, there is no option now because I need to support 64-bit targets :-)