Code Library

Once you’re ready to start a project, you’ll find an updated New Project dialog, where I’ve delineated the most easily overlooked features. You can finally search and sort items in this dialog! The search evaluates all available projects so you’ll see C# and Visual Basic projects both displayed. If you’d like to narrow it down to a particular project type, add C# or Visual Basic as a separate word at the end of your search string. The previous word doesn’t need to be complete; for example, “cl c#” finds the C# Class Library, C# Silverlight Class Library and several other project types.

You can select the target platform in the New Project dialog. If you develop Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Windows Forms applications, you might be surprised to find the default target platform for Visual Studio 2010 is the Client Profile. This is a subset of the full Microsoft .NET Framework platform designed for faster and smaller installation. In most cases, this is a good choice for your application, but be prepared to change it if you’re missing aspects of the framework that you need. If you’ve seen a demo of Visual Studio 2010, you’ve probably seen zoom via the scroll wheel or control-shift-comma and period. It’s a flashy and easily misunderstood feature. Similar to Excel zoom, only the current tab zooms. The zoom doesn’t “stick.” The intention is not to change your font size overall, such as for a presentation, but to allow different views of different windows and at different times. You can zoom out to get the big picture or zoom in to see the details of your code.

I frequently want to change the font size for all of my text editor windows when I move from my external monitor to laptop screen, hook up to a projector, pair with someone, or when my eyes are just having a bad day. You can map a key to increase or decrease your font size for all of your code windows using an accessibility macro. Search keyboard mappings for “fontsize,” and you should find Macros.Samples.Accessibility.DecreaseTextEditorFontSize and its parallel InCreaseTextEditorFontSize. I map these to Alt-Minus and Alt-Equals, which are easy for me to remember. You can do this in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.

Source of Information : Visual Studio Magazine August 2010