Posts Tagged ‘vs’

NavigateToTest VS extension

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

You can download the extension here:
NavigateToTest Visual Studio extension

Some time ago I blogged about the GoToTest macro I use in my daily work.

Recently I decided to create a Visual Studio 2010 extension.

Extension is convention based. It matches ClassName file with ClassNameTest or ClassNameTests and vice-versa, so you can easily navigate to the test file and back.

Here are some screenshots:

You’ll need to add toolbar manually:

Here’s the toolbar:

And two opened files:

You can download the extension here:
NavigateToTest Visual Studio extension

Red line at 80th column in VS

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

vs_redline_at80There is a hidden feature in Visual Studio. You can add a nice, red, vertical line to your editor.
All you need to do is to create a .reg file with the following content:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Text Editor]
“Guides”=”RGB(255,230,230), 80″

And add it to registry (double click). That’s it!