Thursday, February 12, 2009

Common Visual Studio settings

Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > General > ...

  • "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer"
  • "Show Output window when build starts"

Tools > Options > Environment > Find and Replace ...

  • Automatically populate Find What with text from the editor

If you have a suitable level of OCD you can also show white spaces.
Edit > Advanced > View White Space. See Also Coding Horror - Whitespace: The Silent Killer