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Tip of The Day: I just discovered that the title bar in the Find and Replace box in VS has a right-click -> Dockable option. Why had I never seen this before?
Todd Smith
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Tip of The Day: I just discovered that the title bar in the Find and Replace box in VS has a right-click -> Dockable option. Why had I never seen this before?
Todd Smith
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Because you never use it like that? I always use Ctrl+F or Ctrl+H (or Ctrl+D to type in the toolbar search box). Having it visible at all times seems to serve little purpose (never noticed the docking option either)
Actually, it's much more pleasant to have it docked, as it doesn't pop up covering useful information, and it's not visually jarring, which a popup basically is, even if you don't consciously realize it. At least for me it is. Marc
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Actually, it's much more pleasant to have it docked, as it doesn't pop up covering useful information, and it's not visually jarring, which a popup basically is, even if you don't consciously realize it. At least for me it is. Marc
I agree, I don't like the floating dialogs much either, they cover too much. I have solution pane, index pane, properties, and find, all docked in the left column (I didn't like it at the right, so I moved it to the left, and now it looks more like explorer, search left, work right). :)
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Actually, it's much more pleasant to have it docked, as it doesn't pop up covering useful information, and it's not visually jarring, which a popup basically is, even if you don't consciously realize it. At least for me it is. Marc
That's why the lord created dual monitors. ;P
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree, I don't like the floating dialogs much either, they cover too much. I have solution pane, index pane, properties, and find, all docked in the left column (I didn't like it at the right, so I moved it to the left, and now it looks more like explorer, search left, work right). :)
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Tip of The Day: I just discovered that the title bar in the Find and Replace box in VS has a right-click -> Dockable option. Why had I never seen this before?
Todd Smith
Ctrl + I - Incremental search, or as Firefox calls it, Find as you type. Screw the Find dialog. Ctrl + F3 - next search match for highlighted text. Ctrl + Shift + F3 - previous search match for highlighted text.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Ctrl + I - Incremental search, or as Firefox calls it, Find as you type. Screw the Find dialog. Ctrl + F3 - next search match for highlighted text. Ctrl + Shift + F3 - previous search match for highlighted text.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Thanks for the Ctrl+I tip - didn't know about that. :thumbsup:
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Ctrl + I - Incremental search, or as Firefox calls it, Find as you type. Screw the Find dialog. Ctrl + F3 - next search match for highlighted text. Ctrl + Shift + F3 - previous search match for highlighted text.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Ctrl + I - Incremental search
Thanks for the tip, was not aware of it. Usually create a shortcut to Find Combo and use F3...
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Tip of The Day: I just discovered that the title bar in the Find and Replace box in VS has a right-click -> Dockable option. Why had I never seen this before?
Todd Smith
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Actually, it's much more pleasant to have it docked, as it doesn't pop up covering useful information, and it's not visually jarring, which a popup basically is, even if you don't consciously realize it. At least for me it is. Marc
I've docked it for a while for that reason. The only problem is that I stuck it in the same spot as the properties viewer since I never that that when looking at code and almost never need search when in the designer. The only snag is that VS isn't smart enough to read my mind and toggle the one on top for me automatically as I switch between code and designer tabs.
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I've docked it for a while for that reason. The only problem is that I stuck it in the same spot as the properties viewer since I never that that when looking at code and almost never need search when in the designer. The only snag is that VS isn't smart enough to read my mind and toggle the one on top for me automatically as I switch between code and designer tabs.
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Dan Neely wrote:
The only problem is that I stuck it in the same spot as the properties viewer
I put mine under the solution explorer and closed the "Find options" so it's smaller. One of my quirks though is that I like the solution explorer docked on the left, rather than the right. It'd be an interesting survey to see how people configure their IDE's. For example, I turn off all gutters and scrollbars, I kill the error window, set the output to "quiet" and always show the output, and uncheck the "show warnings and errors" in that error window. Can't stand that thing. Marc
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Dan Neely wrote:
The only problem is that I stuck it in the same spot as the properties viewer
I put mine under the solution explorer and closed the "Find options" so it's smaller. One of my quirks though is that I like the solution explorer docked on the left, rather than the right. It'd be an interesting survey to see how people configure their IDE's. For example, I turn off all gutters and scrollbars, I kill the error window, set the output to "quiet" and always show the output, and uncheck the "show warnings and errors" in that error window. Can't stand that thing. Marc
I change the find options enough that even as a floater I always kept it full size. If I was using my home computer I'd have enough space to dock it seperately; but hell will freeze over before work starts buying 2560x1600 monitors for us. I wouldn't put it past them to decide that a single 30" tv with a dvi-hdmi converter would be as good as 2 20 inchish monitors since it would have the same total surface area while using less power though. X|
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