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1. Making F1 do something useful in Visual Studio
Updated: 12 Feb 2011
F1 in Visual Studio takes forever, and rarely comes up with anything useful. Replace it with a Google MSDN search!
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2. Making F1 do something useful in Visual Studio
Updated: 14 Feb 2011
I tried to run this the first time without any documents open and it threw an error, so I made a small mod to the original code to prevent VS from whining at me under those, probably limited, circumstances:Dim url As String = "www.google.com/search?q=MSDN"If DTE.ActiveDocument IsNot...
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3. Making F1 do something useful in Visual Studio
Updated: 16 Feb 2011
I have an alternative Macro which, like the modification from newmodel, only requires you to have the cursor in or at either end of the search word.It also allows for searching from the Output Window and HTML Text.I have to confess that it is not all my own work, although the version...
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4. Making F1 do something useful in Visual Studio
Updated: 4 May 2011
There is a very easy alternative to this in VS 2010 now :) Go to the Help menu, select 'Manage Help Settings', ignore any error messages ( I get 'You do not have permission to modify content under the location specified for the help content store'). Anyway, ignore any error messages then in the...
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Matt is an avid technologist and loves to see solutions he has helped create to make others’ work easier and more productive. While much of his work consists of software development, database design and website development he would say his job is largely designing and implementing solutions. As an integral member of the Riverside County of SELPA he was one of the leads in recently migrating 22 LEAs from one web-based IEP software to another. Matt’s ambition is to become a CTO within education.
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