Sara Ford's WebLog<br>My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at MicrosoftDid you know You can use team settings to keep Visual Studio settings on different machines in sync - 248- June 30, 2008 Under Tools Options Environment Import and Export Settings, youll see an option called Use team settings file. The idea is that you want all the members of your team to use the same baseline set of settings.&160; You can provide a .vssettings file (by creating these customizations on your machine, then doing a Tools Import Export Settings Export to create the file), and put the .vssettings file out on a UNC share.&160; Next, you check the Use team settings file, pointing it at this...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/30/did-you-know-you-can-use-team-settings-t... Happy Birthday CodePlex!- June 28, 2008 Today is the 2nd anniversary of the CodePlex launch announcement.&160; I brought in some birthday cake on this nice, warm and sunny Friday afternoon in Seattle. CodePlex team members who are not currently on vacation.&160;&160; We have a few who are out of office right now. And yes, im wearing one of the Microspotting t-shirts. And a picture of our half-eaten birthday cake.&160; I have got to remember to take pictures first, then eat the cakehttp://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/27/happy-birthday-codeplex.aspx Did you know You can copy the full file path from the final wizard page when exporting settings - 247- June 27, 2008 Todays tip is more like a tip than my usual micro-functionality daily tips.&160; After you do an export, the final page of the wizard shows you the full file path.&160; This is actually just a read-only edit box that has a tab stop (in other words, you can put your cursor in it and grab the full file path.) After you export your settings, you may want to open the file and see whats there,&160; in case there are any tweaks you want to make.&160; Otherwise, youll have to open up the...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/27/did-you-know-you-can-copy-the-full-file-... Did you know Visual Studio automatically saves all your current settings every time you close VS - 246- June 26, 2008 On the Tools Options Environment Import Export Settings (yes, the Tools Import Export Dialog has its own Tools Options page), youll find the option where to store you current settings.&160; Note that you dont get to opt out of this.&160; Prior to 2005, setting categories were saved in separate files in %appdata%, like a file for all your toolbox customizations, your window layouts, your keyboard shortcut bindings, your command bar changes, and so forth.&160; Starting in 2005, those...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/26/did-you-know-visual-studio-automatically... Did you know You can save your current settings prior to doing an Import or Reset - 245- June 25, 2008 Sometimes, Tip of the Day isnt about stating the obvious; its about stating the non-obvious.&160; A lot of times, theres functionality that seems trivial on the surface, but one-off things occur at a deeper level (like yesterdays tip).&160; Fortunately, todays tip is completely trivial.&160; no hidden operations going on under the UI. Whenever you do a destructive operation via Tools Import Export Settings, like importing or resetting, we prompt you whether you want to save your current..http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/25/did-you-know-you-can-save-your-current-s... Did you know Whats the difference between Resetting Settings and Importing Settings - 244- June 24, 2008 Whenever I demo Tools Import Export Settings, Im usually asked whats the difference between the Import feature and the Reset feature. From an end-user perspective, importing everything in that particular settings file is functionally the same as a reset.&160; Thats why we dont show you the Choose Settings To Import wizard page.&160; If we did, you would see all the checkboxes checked and grayed-out on that page. But of course, theres more going on under the UI surface.&160;...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/24/did-you-know-what-s-the-difference-betwe... Tip of the Day now available in Russian and Spanish- June 23, 2008 Thanks to Andy Gonzalez on the Globalization team for translating the tips into Spanish. http:blogs.msdn.comandygonarchivetagsVS2008Tipdefault.aspx Thanks to Vitaly Zaiko on the Globalization team for translating the tips into Russian. http:blogs.msdn.comrusaraford I hope my humor and writing style werent too difficult to translate. =)http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/23/tip-of-the-day-now-available-in-russian-... Did you know You can add your own files to the Import Export Settings Reset page list - 243- June 23, 2008 If you go to the Reset page on the Tools Import Export Settings Wizard, youll see the list of files you can reset to.&160; These settings files are the ones created by the VS teams.&160; But, lets say that one of the default files just has some small option that just annoys you (for me, i list this option below) or you want to add your own to the list. The RedRed.vssettings file is one i created.&160; I was testing tomorrows tip for fonts and colors. These files live at.http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/23/did-you-know-you-can-add-your-own-files-... Are there any women with projects on CodePlex- June 20, 2008 Im sitting here looking at womens swag apparel wondering how many women we have as project owners on CodePlex (or who work on CodePlex projects).&160; I remember talking to a handful of women at TechEd regarding CodePlex, but i dont recall anyone working on a project or owning a project. I found this FLOSS research study that states We proposed to study the role of gender in freelibreopen source software (FLOSS) communities because an earlier EC study (Ghosh et al...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/20/are-there-any-women-with-projects-on-cod... Did you know You can bind macros to keyboard shortcuts (or how to quickly increase decrease your text editor font size) - 242- June 20, 2008 This was tip 21, my final tip, for the TechEd VS 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks talk. If you go to Tools Options Environment Keyboard and in the Show Settings For edit box, type in Macro, youll see a list of samples right at the top.&160; I wrote the Accessibility macros, my 133 line contribution to the Visual Studio 2005 product, which youll also find in VS 2008. There are two Accessibility macros worth noting, the Increase and Decrease Text Editor Font Size. .http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/20/did-you-know-you-can-bind-macros-to-keyb... |