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May 22, 2008 05:27
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JP
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- Install ReSharper 4.0...of course
- Install new theme. Live a little. My personal favorite is Ragnarok Blue.
- Remove every toolbar button that you don't use. That should give you about 4 or 5.
- Learn the keyboard shortcuts for those 5 toolbar buttons and remove the buttons left over from Step #3.
- Learn to use ReSharper to navigate around your project:
| CTRL+SHIFT+N |
Go to file |
| CTRL+N |
Go to type |
| CTRL+F12 |
Go to member |
| CTRL+E |
Recent files list |
The nice thing about the first three is that ReSharper recognizes camel casing. That is, if I enter FB, it will locate FormBuild, FastBreak, FillyBuster, etc.
- Unpin Solution Explorer, Properties, Team Explorer...you know, all that stuff that usually takes up real estate on the right side of Visual Studio.
- CTRL+ALT+ENTER to enter full screen. At first it's kind of like when Luke put on the blind fold and tried to hit the little floating thingy with his lightsaber....but without the possibility of killing everyone in the room...and you get used to it really quickly.
- Take note of everywhere you use a context menu and try to replace that with a keyboard shortcut. By this point you might notice that you have developed some really weird habits. For me, after I took the Save buttons off the toolbar, I realized that I randomly seem to want to click Save on the toolbar all the time. So, now I just do CTRL+SHIFT+S to Save All.
- If you find yourself doing repetitive tasks, record a macro and assign it to a hot key. If it's just a one shot need, use a temporary macro. ReSharper takes over the shortcuts that Visual Studio uses for temporary macros, so I have remapped ALT+R (to Record temporary macro) and ALT+P (to Playback temporary macro)
Well, that's all I have. If you have any more tips, please tell me about them.