Arjans blog » Shortcuts, tips and tricks http://blog.einbu.no Arjan: Technical Learnings of Programmings for Make Benefit Glorious Framework of .NET Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:21:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Shortcuts for unittesting http://blog.einbu.no/2009/04/shortcuts-for-unittesting/ http://blog.einbu.no/2009/04/shortcuts-for-unittesting/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:16:50 +0000 aeinbu http://blog.einbu.no/?p=199 When you’re doing unittesting in a project, there are two more shortcuts that would be nice to have.

These days, I’m running tests more often than I’m running the app, so why stop at having only the F5 so available for running the app in the debugger?

I have used ReSharper (R#) and TestDriven.NET, and none of [...]]]> http://blog.einbu.no/2009/04/shortcuts-for-unittesting/feed/ 0 What’s cool about Code Snippets? http://blog.einbu.no/2009/04/whats-so-cool-about-code-snippets/ http://blog.einbu.no/2009/04/whats-so-cool-about-code-snippets/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:00:04 +0000 aeinbu http://blog.einbu.no/?p=38 Code snippets are pre-created pieces of code, and Visual Studio supports two kinds of them. Expanding code snippets and surrounding code snippets. You can get started with code snippets right away, since Visual Studio ships with lots of them.

So, how do they work? Well, the expanding code snippets are the easiest to use; you select a snippet [...]]]> http://blog.einbu.no/2009/04/whats-so-cool-about-code-snippets/feed/ 0 Your second handfull of VS2008 Shortcuts http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/your-second-handfull-of-vs2008-keyboard-shortcuts/ http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/your-second-handfull-of-vs2008-keyboard-shortcuts/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:00:50 +0000 aeinbu http://blog.einbu.no/?p=34 In my previous article about keyboards shortcuts I promised a follow-up.

Well, here it is:

Many of the keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio are chords. This means that the shortcut is actually a sequence of keypresses. (So with the first one mentioned here, you’ll first press and hold the CTRL-key while pressing K first, and after releasing [...]]]> http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/your-second-handfull-of-vs2008-keyboard-shortcuts/feed/ 0 Your first handfull of VS2008 keyboard shortcuts http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/your-first-handfull-of-vs2008-keyboard-shortcuts/ http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/your-first-handfull-of-vs2008-keyboard-shortcuts/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:00:16 +0000 aeinbu http://blog.einbu.no/?p=16 When teaching programming, I tend to do a lot of live coding. Coding in front of a live audience is special, and I take special care to try to do it right the first time, and also do it as quickly as possible at the same time.

Keyboard shortcuts help a lot!

I became way more efficient [...]]]> http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/your-first-handfull-of-vs2008-keyboard-shortcuts/feed/ 1