Author Archives: Sergey Vlasov

Hide the Publish button in the status bar of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 adds the new Publish button to the status bar to provide a quick and easy way to get solutions into source control: “[The Publish button] aims to provide a quick and easy way to get … Continue reading →

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Tabs Studio v3.7.2 adds file changes indicator

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Sergey Vlasov

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio and SSMS extension empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. v3.7.2 introduces the new TrackEd add-in for Tabs Studio that shows a yellow bar in the tab title for modified … Continue reading →

Hide rename outline in Visual Studio 2015 with Plain Rename

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Sergey Vlasov

While you are editing a variable name in Visual Studio 2015, a dashed outline is displayed around it: It’s a new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that works for C# and Visual Basic languages. The same outline is displayed when … Continue reading →

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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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Visual Studio customization with lightweight extensions and Visual Commander

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Studio is a very capable and mature IDE, plus there are 5,942 items in Visual Studio Gallery from 3rd parties, extending functionality even further in all possible directions. Still, if it is not written by you it can’t be … Continue reading →

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Sync Block Edit v1.2 adds support for Visual Studio 2015

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

Sync Block Edit is a free extension that lets you easily update duplicate blocks of text in multiple files from Visual Studio 2010+. v1.2 adds support for Visual Studio 2015. Download the installer.