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Quickly launch commands with the search tool - Visual Studio Tutorial
From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training
Quickly launch commands with the search tool
- [Instructor] Searching within applications is becoming customary in many Microsoft products. As the apps become bigger and more complex, we need ways to find a tool or setting easily. Hunting aimlessly through menus and dialogues is not acceptable anymore. Here's an example, there's a feature that I like called View White Space. I have a hard time remembering where to find that in the Visual Studio menus. Or is it in the Tools Options dialogue? It happens to be over here in the Edit menu, Advanced, View White Space. Now this is a toggle menu, so when I click on it it'll put a visual indicator in my code that says that this white space between these two words is a spaced character and this white space at the beginning of the line is a tab. To turn off that feature, I have to go back to the same place. Do you remember where that is? Right, Edit, Advanced, View White Space. Another feature I turn off when I'm recording some of these videos is called CodeLens. That happens to be in…
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Use Window Layout to save or reset tool window positions2m 6s
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See more code in full-screen mode1m 19s
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Navigate the IDE with the Navigation Helper1m 14s
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Docking tool windows with the visualizer3m 44s
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Use SplitView within an editor55s
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Quickly launch commands with the search tool3m 33s
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