After @joe’s answer, Jared Parsons created the great VsVim. It’s been featured on Visual Studio Gallery. It’s a ready extension package. I downloaded it, ran the file and it worked out of the box. It’s free, too.
This post is linked from the official Microsoft documentation for MSBuild Conditions as having examples of usage. The syntax for MSBuild conditions is not exactly equivalent to the way templating $if$ statements work but it’s a close approximation. However, it seems the examples here are now obsolete or were never completely accurate to begin with. … Read more
user142207 has done a great job investigating VS internals, I recommend that solution. I have another way that was invented by my colleague, Sergey S., which is very useful: Windows: Use a couple of functions ReadProcessMemory/WriteProcessMemory. It needs a standalone app that calls these functions with a target process id like: dumper.exe <debugged process id> … Read more
The Windows Phone 8 emulator requires hardware Hyper-V support. In particular, it requires second-level address translation, hardware assisted virtualization, and hardware DEP support enabled and to not be ran in a hypervisor(no nesting). If you bought your machine within the past 4 years you should have no problem with these requirements. You can check out … Read more
The method with the ClassInitialize attribute runs once for all the tests in the class. An instance of the class is created each time a test is run, so it has to be static in order to only run once. If you want to initialize for every test, then you can use the TestInitialize attribute, … Read more
The Windows Forms designer doesn’t zoom. The WPF one does because it’s vector based, but WinForms is pixel based you don’t get the zooming. If you’ve got multiple monitors you can drag the designer to a second screen and work with it that way, or you can press Alt+Shift+Enter to toggle full screen and work … Read more
Update: this setting was changed in VS 2015 update 2. See this answer. This post addresses your question. The gist of it is: Text Editor > C# > Advanced > Generate XML documentation comments for ///
Update: Visual Studio 2019 16.6 now has it’s own Terminal (Hoorray!). Check View -> Terminal or try to press Ctrl + `. Old answer: There are extensions for that. I tried BuiltinCmd and Whack Whack Terminal, the latter worked better for me. You can choose between CMD and PowerShell, all dotnet CLI commands works just … Read more
Visual Studio supports EditorConfig files (https://editorconfig.org/) Visual Studio (VS2017 and later) searches for a file named ‘.editorconfig’ in the directory containing your source files, or anywhere above this directory in the hierarchy. This file can be used to direct the editor to use utf-8. I use the following: [*] end_of_line = lf charset = utf-8 … Read more
Go here: Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Formatting > Indentation > Indent case labels