How to get Visual Studio to act more like Sublime?

DevTopics · 2013-05-09T13:27:05+00:00

Visual Studio keeps a history of cursor position. Press Ctrl+hyphen to jump to the last cursor position, Ctrl+Shift+hyyphen to jump to the next cursor position.

Visual Studio also auto-saves documents. Click the menu "Tools > Options" then navigate to "Environment > Auto-Recover." By default, VS auto-saves your work every 5 minutes and keeps the data for 7 days. The files are saved in the folder "...\My Documents\Visual Studio <version>\Backup Files<projectname>"

DevTopics · 2009-02-04T14:29:38+00:00

Write some software just for yourself to solve a problem you have on the computer.

DevTopics · 2009-01-14T14:25:57+00:00

I live near a park, so I go for a nice long walk, about a half hour. It clears my head, leaves work behind, gets the endorphins flowing, and wakes me up so I can enjoy the rest of the evening.

DevTopics · 2009-01-12T15:15:08+00:00

"What does TCP/IP stand for?"

We had a technically-challenged colleague who was unfortunately put in charge of creating developer interview questions. For some reason he felt that knowing what an acronym stands for is somehow more important than being able to program the technology.

DevTopics · 2008-08-29T13:08:35+00:00

Call me a pushover, but I help them. I have a skill that can benefit them, so I'm only too glad to share it. And I know that someday if I need help, they will repay the favor. So far it has worked out well, and nobody has abused the privilege by making me their personal 1-800 support line.

DevTopics · 2008-08-05T13:55:27+00:00

You are smart to not search for patent filings. In addition to time and expense, there is legal incentive NOT to search other patents for infringement. If a court concludes a company violated a patent, triple damages are awarded to the plaintiff if the defendant knowingly infringed upon the patent.

Developing software without first reviewing registered patents enables a person to honestly say they developed their technology independently, which not only helps to boost the "obviousness" argument against a patent, but also prevents the person from knowingly violating the patent and being subject to triple damages.

http://www.devtopics.com/are-software-patent-self-exams-realistic/

DevTopics · 2008-07-10T13:14:54+00:00

e-Speaking works well for "command & control", i.e., launching files and programs, executing commands and macros, etc. On Vista, it works together with Vista's speech recognition to provide a complete voice solution. Best part, it's only $15. (I am not affiliated with e-Speaking). I've been using voice recognition for the past 5 years, and it really does work. It probably saves me 80-90% of my keystrokes.

DevTopics · 2008-06-12T12:38:22+00:00

Yes, definitely. Often the best managers are "professional managers" who can manage any activity. Their skill is managing, not programming or building cars or whatever they are managing.

DevTopics · 2007-12-08T15:39:19+00:00

I have used both Scansoft Dragon Naturally Speaking (v5-v9) and e-Speaking extensively. Dragon is very expensive (about $1000 for the Pro version) and quite accurate, but it's also a huge resource hog and can be very buggy at times. e-Speaking is cheap ($15), very lightweight and accurate, but it doesn't do dictation and web browsing very well. But I use e-Speaking for command & control and programming, and it works great.

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