Sara Ford's WebLog<br>My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at MicrosoftDid you know You can use the immediate window as a glorified calculator or side-debugger within your debugger - 241- June 19, 2008 This was tip 20 in my TechEd VS 2008 IDE tips and tricks talk. When you want to do more than just edit the value of a variable, you can rewrite entire functions or create new ones in the immeidate window.&160; I found this especially useful when I was doing the math to automate dragging a tool window from a docked location to&160; a docking target.&160; I basically had to do the math to calculate a straight line between the two points in order to send the coordinates to the mouse drag...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/19/did-you-know-you-can-use-the-immediate-w... Did you know Remove unused using statements - 240- June 18, 2008 This was tip 17 in my TechEd VS 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Talk In C, theres the option to remove any of your unused using statements.&160; This is especially helpful if youre reusing some sort of template over and over again.&160; Instead of having to comment out each line, compile, see whether the compile was successful, then either remove or uncomment the line, you can bring up the editor context menu (just right click in the editor), and choose Organize Usings - Remove Unused...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/18/did-you-know-remove-unused-using-stateme... Did you know You can set conditional breakpoints - 239- June 17, 2008 This was tip 16 for my TechEd VS IDE Tips and Tricks talk. I believe this has been around since 2005, but maybe the white + is new for 2008 When you only want to break under certain conditions, you can right-click on a breakpoint red circle (or go to the Breakpoints Window and bring up the context menu on a given breakpoint) and select Condition to bring up the dialog box for conditional breakpoints.&160; Youre given two options: break only when the specified expression is true or...http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/17/did-you-know-you-can-set-conditional-bre... |