Category: Visual Studio Blog

Coloured tabs is supported in Visual Studio 2022. From release 17.1 Preview 2 we can now explicitly set Visual Studio … Continue reading Set tab colour per project when using Coloured tabs in Visual Studio 2022

FYI.. if we choose we can have Visual Studio select subwords when we double click a variable or method name. … Continue reading How to enable selecting subwords on double click in Visual Studio

In the top menu in Visual Studio Solution Explorer there is a ‘Preview Selected Items‘ button…. When this is enabled … Continue reading Preview files without having to double click to open them in Visual Studio

‘Surround With…’ snippets can be a useful time saver in Visual Studio. They allow us to surround the highlighted code … Continue reading Surround lines of code with code snippets in Visual Studio

FYI… Visual Studio has a refactor which can be used to quickly rename the containing file when a class name … Continue reading Visual Studio has a refactor to rename corresponding file when a class name is changed

If you want to turn off the structure guidelines in Visual Studio uncheck the highlighted option below. I personally think … Continue reading How to turn off structure guidelines in Visual Studio

FYI… coloured tabs in Visual Studio 2022 is a small but helpful new feature to help you match open files … Continue reading Coloured tabs by project or file extension in Visual Studio 2022

In Visual Studio you might not have noticed it, but there’s a very helpful file filter available in the Solution … Continue reading How to show only open files or those with pending changes in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

In Visual Studio to navigate back to your previous cursor position check out the buttons on the top left of … Continue reading How to navigate backward and forward through previous cursor positions in Visual Studio

Visual Studio highlights matching braces when you place the cursor before an opening brace (or after a closing brace) but … Continue reading How to change the default highlight colour of matching braces in Visual Studio

Storing code snippets in the Visual Studio Toolbox is really useful when we are preparing for a demo or tutorial. … Continue reading How to store code snippets in Visual Studio for re-use later

In Visual Studio to launch your web app in multiple browsers simply set multiple defaults in the ‘Browse With…’ screen … Continue reading How to launch a web app in multiple browsers from Visual Studio at the same time

Previously I wrote about how we can customise the templates Visual Studio uses when it scaffolds a controller. After changing … Continue reading How to scaffold multiple ASP.NET CORE MVC controllers at once using a bat file

Visual Studio has shortcuts for almost everything. Getting to know even some of these can save you a lot of … Continue reading Visual Studio constructor creation shortcuts

Visual Studio by default will keep a console app open after debugging. A lot of the time after debugging console … Continue reading Close the console window when debugging stops in Visual Studio

In Visual Studio to edit multiple lines which are vertically aligned at once press Alt and select the aligned block … Continue reading How to select and edit multiple lines at once in Visual Studio

If you want to create a .NET 5 console or web app you’ll notice by default Visual Studio will create … Continue reading Creating .NET 5 projects in Visual Studio WITHOUT editing the project file after creation

In Visual Studio typing out new C# properties along with their get/sets can be tedious. A shortcut is to type.. … Continue reading Using Visual Studio shortcuts to create C# properties

In Visual Studio when you copy some code it gets added into the clipboard ring which can store a maximum … Continue reading Viewing all copied items in the Visual Studio clipboard ring

In Visual Studio if you have lots of tabs open you can pin the ones you’re directly working on to … Continue reading Showing Visual Studio pinned tabs in a separate row

If you have a wide monitor you may prefer to have Visual Studio tabs positioned vertically on the left or … Continue reading How to configure a vertical tab layout in Visual Studio