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Introducing .NET/Visual Studio Power Tips

Over the years that I have been working as a .NET developer and consultant for a large number of different

Copying and pasting is an essential part of every developers life. It is so essential that you can even buy

I watch many developers deleting and copying code lines in Visual Studio in an unnecessary complicated procedure. They place the

Usually, when selecting text in a text editor, the text is selected line by line. This means that if I

There is an interesting function in Visual Studio hidden in the options menu: Scroll Bar Map Mode. Going to TOOLS

You might be familiar with the standard search functionality in Visual Studio accessible via CTRL-F. Personally, I hardly use it.

A very useful but little kn own window in VS2015 is the Call Hierarchy Window. It can be used to

This power tip introduces a couple of shortcuts that can be used to navigate through code files in Visual

Very often, .NET applications need to convert images. Meet ImageMagick! What is Image Magick? Say you have an

I stumble upon this one recently and I always need to google it to get the syntax right. So this

There is one extension to Visual Studio that you ABSOLUTELY NEED!!! And its the Productivity Power Tools. Go to TOOLS

Say, you have a .NET Project with a lot of assemblies in the project output and you don’t like it.

This .NET Power Tip makes me bang my head against the wall over and over again! How many times have

The configuration part of Log4Net often causes severe headaches. Most of the times, a small mistakes prevents any log output

Sometimes you need a directory or some files within your Visual Studio Solution that you do NOT want to check-in