Category: Visual Studio Blog

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

If you’re working on a web app in Visual Studio and want to launch it in Incognito mode to make … Continue reading Opening web apps in Incognito mode from Visual Studio

In Visual Studio the Task List window is super useful and allows us to view items which require attention across … Continue reading Using Visual Studio Task List window to view todo items

Launching multiple projects at the same time from Visual Studio can be really useful if one of your projects triggers … Continue reading Running multiple projects in Visual Studio at once

Are you often trying to scroll up and down the Output window in Visual Studio to copy its contents so … Continue reading Saving Visual Studio Output window contents to file

There’s a lot of different functionality windows and extensions in Visual Studio but many can slow performance and add a … Continue reading Increasing Visual Studio startup time by not showing slow windows and not restoring state from your last session

If your here I’m assuming you already know a little about it Googles WebP image format. If not check out … Continue reading Converting images to WebP format in Visual Studio with the WebP Toolkit extension

If you want to test little snippets of code in Visual Studio before having to change your code and having … Continue reading Using the C# Interactive window to test code snippets in Visual Studio