Monthly Archives: December 2015

Visual Commander v2.3 adds IntelliSense and syntax highlighting for command editing in VS 2015

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Commander is a freemium extension for Visual Studio 2010+ allowing you to automate repetitive tasks in the IDE. Visual Commander Professional v2.3 adds IntelliSense and syntax highlighting for snippets editing in VS 2015: See the full what’s new list. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft C++ Core Guidelines Checker released

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

C++ Core Checker for Visual Studio is now available as a NuGet package. The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++. Microsoft’s Guidelines Support Library (GSL) contains supporting functions and … Continue reading →

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On changing Visual Studio 2015 icon

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 have changed the main Visual Studio icon (which you see on the taskbar): The intent was to make it different from the Visual Studio 2013 icon, but the result is not obviously better. In this … Continue reading →

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Hide code in the Visual Studio editor

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

You can easily hide any block of code in Visual Studio using the Hide Selection command. Invoke it from the main Edit – Outlining menu, Outlining context menu or with a shortcut to the Edit.HideSelection command: Selected code will be … Continue reading →

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