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Did you know you can set a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window within Visual Studio?  You can!  This video shows you how.   Original Blog Post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/02/05/setting-a-breakpoint-in-the-call-stack-window-vstipdebug0008.aspx  General: …

Some of the best features are ones you don't have to do any work to get.  Reference Highlighting is one of those features.  In this video I will show you how it works and how to take full advantage of this new addition to the Editor.   Original Blog…

Check out the Visual Studio 2010 multi-line cursor called "zero-length box selection".  This feature allows you to work with multiple lines of code at the same time.  General:  SHIFT + ALT + [UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT] ARROW; ALT + Left Mouse…

Learn how the new IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2010 works.  This video covers the new "includes" operations as well as working with Pascal Case items in IntelliSense.   Original Blog Posts: …

Okay, so we all know that the Command Line never really went away in certain circles (I spent this weekend snuggling up to netsh, if you must know) but as the world continues its unhealthy obsession with the latest gizmo and must-have widget, the good old Command Line no longer gets the…

Dropping into my post box this morning were my first two Kinect games (other than Kinect Adventures, of course, which comes free with the Kinect Controller). As soon as I’m finished with work today, the family and I will be learning how to “be the controller”. Can’t wait! Unfortunately, whilst our…

Developer tools have made incredible advances in making it easier to express our creativity and productivity by adding new features and capabilities to the integrated development environment (IDE). This week we sit down with Zain Naboulsi, host of the popular Visual Studio Tips & Tricks blog…

I just stumbled across a bookmark-worthy page for all you Hotmail users. The Life Rocks blog posted a great big list of keyboard shortcuts that work in Windows Live Hotmail. These shortcuts let you navigate through Hotmail completely mouse-free, something which not only speeds up the time you spend…

A friend of mine just tweeted an interesting tip from LifeHacker: you can add your Dropbox folder directly to the Windows 7 Start Menu. For those of you that don’t know, Dropbox is a file synchronization service that lets you keep files on multiple computers in sync similar to Windows Live Sync or…

Over on the (unofficial) SevenForums site, one user has come up with a way to insert spaces into your Windows 7 taskbar so you can create separated icon groups. The trick involves creating some blank shortcuts that lead to a fake program and pinning those shortcuts to the taskbar. To facilitate…