I'm working on my own colour scheme for displaying code in visual studio. I can't find some text section name so I don't know where to change its colour. :( Can anybody help me and tell me where do I find them, I mean what is the name of the following sections:
The grey one (documentation tag value and it's quote) - picture below
(source: yfrog.com)
The olive colour: header of a asp.net in vb language document. - <% and underline.
http://img12.yfrog.com/img12/7375/headerqt.png (NOTE: image is now broken)
To write my code I use vb.net language.
XML Doc comment, XML Doc Quote should be what your looking for. VB user types, User types and keyword also.
You might want to save yourself some time, i just did my color scheme, which i call Steam (based on Steam Platform from valve). It kind of looks like what your going for
I can't post a screenshot since i am new, but here is a download link. You can import it via the tools menu in VS. It includes resharper color settings.
Steam for VS 2010/08
The first one is XML Doc Attribute.
The second one is HTML Element Name.
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I would like to be able to include a screenshot of a control inside my code, this way making control identification easier for new members on my team, is such a thing possible?
Maybe even the ability to just have the image on a network share with the path in a comment, and then have a plugin that when hovering over the link brings up the image?
EDIT (More detail):
I'm creating a test project, the application under test has over 1000 controls, some of them are similar in name and purpose, this can make it difficult at times for developers to reuse the API I am creating because the control name is simply not enough for quick identification of the control in use.
I use the word API very loosely too, none of this stuff will be consumed in web services, and it will always be white box with developers including a project reference and have direct access to the source code.
For every form in my application (The test one), I have a controls.cs file where all the controls for that form in the application under test are listed - This is where I want the hover to screenshot ability in the control definitions.
Another sure factor is that all developers will be using VS2013 (For now the base version), later this could be update 1 or 2.
As the initial author and senior developer on this project, these hover / image references (in the code) will be as useful to me personally as any 3rd party developers, or any later developers to join the initiative.
Thanks again, and I added a bounty!
I believe you can use Whole Tomato's free SourceLinks Visual Studio extension to do what you want - or at least get pretty close to it.
Built-in Functionality:
Out of the box, the extension allows you to specify comment patterns you want users to be able to take an action on. Once the patterns are specified, SourceLinks will highlight any occurrences of those patterns in the text editor. You will be able to double click the highlighted items and perform a pre-configured action (such as opening a link in an internal/external browser, or launching an executable).
You can see an example in the SourceLinks configuration dialog shown below:
(source: wholetomato.com)
So you could use this feature pretty painlessly to define a keyword such as Control Image and then put comments like the following in your code:
// Control Image: my_smart_list.jpg
SourceLinks would allow you double click this text, and you could have that configured to launch the image (using a file:// or http:// url depending on how and where your images are stored) either inside Visual Studio in it's internal browser, or in an external browser.
Custom Tooltips!
Now, if you want to put in some more effort into this and actually write some code, then SourceLinks allows you to create API Extensions to display custom tooltips when the user hovers over the marked text in the editor. The default installation of SourceLinks comes with sample API extensions that you can copy to create your own. See the article linked at the very top of the answer for more details on these samples.
This post in the SourceLinks forum informs us that SourceLinks expects the custom API Extension to return the tooltip value as FlowDocument XAML text. This is awesome news for us, because a FlowDocument can contain many types of elements, including formatted text, hyperlinks, and images.
Imanges in a Flow document can be specified both inline as well as externally.
Hope this helps!
I would use doxygen -- create the images somewhere in the source tree and use doxygen comments. You can embed the \image command in source comments (see docs) and doxygen will generate all the HTML documentation from there. I think doxygen is a great tool for documenting a codebase as you can generate the documentation directly from comments in the source and distribute or host the HTML separately.
I have been searching hi and lo, within and outside internet but it seems I cannot find a definitive answer:
Can I change the default layout-items in SSRS reports? If so, how?
So that a textbox does not have Arial 10 as default fontsize but has fontsize 8?
So that tablixes have default properties like 'show column-headers on each page' enabled?
and so on?
I am familiar with custom templates (.rdl) but they do not offer the possibility of changing layout-items like default font and colors and properties of report parts and such.
In VS 2005 there was the StyleTemplate to play with but that is only effective when using the wizard.
It seems it is the same way with VS 2010.
I prefer to hear that it can be done and instructions how to, I would be satisfied with tips how to circumvent the problem of manually changing those properties eacht time and I will be grateful for a definitive answer. Right now it is driving me crazy :)
I am working with VS2010 (latest updates and such) icm SQL 2008, 2008R2 and (local) 2012BI
Thanks for thinking with me!
Unfortunately by design, you are not allowed to set default font etc. There is active defect in Microsoft https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/574003/modify-the-default-font-family-for-sql-server-business-intelligence-development-studio-while-creating-a-report#
I know it's a very old post, but for others in search of an answer, I thought I'd add the following. If I want all my textboxes in a font other than Arial 10pt, I will make the first textbox and set my font styling, then use that as a master textbox, copying it and changing the interior text rather than creating new textboxes each time. It's a hack, but since VS still can't do this in 2015, it's the best we have.
You can always open code(XML)-view and edit font properties there. Eg. search for
<FontFamily> -tag and add <FontSize>10pt</FontSize> as a sibling for <Style>-tag.
Before editing the XML, close report design-view. Otherwise properties of objects are not functioning properly.
At the start of the XML for the RDL file (what you see if you select View Code on the file) there's a tag <df:DefaultFontFamily> which defines the default font. If you change this to the family you want and re-save the XML file, any future textboxes you create will pick up this default font family.
The FontSize property must be in npt format. If this property takes the value from an SQL query that returns an integer, add the expression by adding "pt": (for example, = Fields! DimFont.Value & "pt").
When entering a work item in TFS2010, it's often nice to refer to other tickets in the text free fields (either description or Acceptance Criteria field).
Most other ticket tracking software I have used automatically creates links/hyperlinks to other tickets if you put appropriate text into these fields (e.g, Trac, BugTracker.NET, etc).
I understand the link tab, and that you can create relationships there, but it would be lovely to have this feature available and clickable in the other text field.
Does TFS2010 (+ Visual Studio 2010) support something like this? I cannot find for the life of me, a solution.
If you use a rich text edit field (the advanced text field available for work item definitions, with coloring buttons and so on), you can include hyperlinks, also to other workitems etc. This is however a manual exercise to make the hyperlink point to the correct item, there is no automatic recognition of #-tags or whatever to refer to other workitems.
Hi you could use a plugin called TFS Extensions Kit. TEK workitem. This is a Visual Studio extension that allows, besides other features, to open, in Visual Studio, workitems and queries from a Hyperlink.
So you could use the hyperlinks in any field.
Look at the Visual Studio Gallery:TFS Extensions Kit. TEK workitem
You can download a demo from here
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It's an old question, but if you get here looking for the answer for VSTS the answer is hashtag followed by itemId. Similar to #UserName to reference another user.
Eg. In comments box typing This is a dupe of #2428 will translate into This is a dupe of User Story 2428: Story name where User Story 2428: Story name is a link to the item.
Can someone point me to an article or tutorial on using custom controls in Visual Studio Lightswitch? I'm trying to add a rich text box to a page, linked to a string property. When running the app, sometimes the field will show up, sometimes it won't. If it does show the width of the field is small, about 2 characters, but will expand when text is pasted inside. Saving doesn't work, though.
I'm not even sure about whether or not I'm allowed to use controls like these in a Lightswitch app, even though custom controls are obviously supported. Are the custom controls restricted to a certain type or set?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Have a look at the following example, http://lightswitchhelpwebsite.com/Blog/tabid/61/EntryId/10/LightSwitch-Student-Information-System-Part-3-Custom-Controls.aspx
Also the Training Kit has examples of Custome Controls included.
There is also this tutorial:
Creating A LightSwitch Custom Silverlight Control
http://lightswitchhelpwebsite.com/Blog/tabid/61/EntryId/2/Creating-A-LightSwitch-Custom-Silverlight-Control.aspx
How do I customize, extend the text editor, or color tag parts of my code?
I would like Visual Studio to color code parts of my code. Can I use #region and give it a color?
Is there any way to make the background between two parentheses have a different color? (I want each code "block" to have its own color.)
I've looked here for some insight, but they all are implemented based "on what you select". All I want is to have the text editor "render" the text in a different way based on some rules.
I haven't seen such feature, but there is something quite close to what you are looking for in ReSharper. A setting called "Highlight matching delimiters". Looks like this in use:
I wanted tell you this because
1) You might be interested in resharper and
2) resharper is able to do the highlighting so maybe someone can make an add-in or something to add this kind of feature. Maybe you? :)
I don't know of anything exactly like what you're asking for, but the VS10x Code Map extention might help: http://www.axtools.com/products-vs2010-extensions.php
It will give you a nice overview of the code on the side, and make navigation somewhat easier.
The download button on the right lets you download a trial version from the Visual Studio Gallery at msdn.microsoft.com. I think you can also find it directly from the extentions view in VS2010.