Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets

I was spending some time responding to Connect bugs the other day when I ran across this suggestion : “It would be nice to have a clip board history window that could be next to the control toolbox as a nice utility window. (Often in presentations I see Microsoft presenters using a custom clipboard tool for such a purpose). Many times I wish I could go back to something I copied & pasted just a few minutes ago, then to have to go and copy the same text all over again.” Turns out that Visual Studio already has this “hidden” feature.  It’s called the Clipboard Ring .  If you copy a number of items to the clipboard, pressing [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[V] will paste the last text that was copied, but it will also highlight the pasted phrase.  Continue holding down [Ctrl]+[Shift] and press [V] again.  This will cause that highlighted section to cycle through the other items on the clipboard.  This is extremely useful when you have to copy multiple lines of separate text to a new document.  Now, you might be saying, “Great, but what if I want to save a piece of code that I use frequently in multiple places?  I don’t want to have to cycle through the clipboard ring every time.”  Well, there’s also a feature for that !  If you highlight a section of code (or text) and drag it to the Toolbox, VS will create a "snippet” (not to be confused with code snippets ) that can be dragged into the VS editor.

Upcoming Webinar – Learn about Microsoft’s solutions for Enterprise Vertical Devices, Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded CE

The Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile teams have finalized the transition of the enterprise vertical device business to Windows Embedded.  Microsoft is committed to this market and with this transition will have one organization focusing on the enterprise mobile device category to meet the needs of our customers and partners. The Windows Embedded team is currently working through a phased transition process to engage key customers and partners and to define the product roadmap for enterprise…( read more )

Wer wird Deutscher FussballMeister 2009 / 2010?

Letzte Woche habe ich RESTPoll publiziert, eine REST Service API um Umfragen zu erstellen.

How to configure and use EWS Impersonation on Exchange 2010/2007?

We can refer to the below mentioned articles for configuring and using EWS impersonation for the Exchange 2010 : Configuring Exchange Impersonation (Exchange Web Services) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204095.aspx Using Exchange Impersonation XML Request/Response http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204088.aspx Using Impersonation in EWS Managed API http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633680(EXCHG.80).aspx And here are the links for configuring and using EWS impersonation for the Exchange 2007 : Configuring Exchange Impersonation (Exchange Web Services) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204095(EXCHG.80).aspx Using Exchange Impersonation (Exchange Web Services) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204088(EXCHG.80).aspx ExchangeServiceBinding Class : Code Sample http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchangewebservices.exchangeservicebinding.aspx Hope this helps!!!

Expectations Beyond Windows 7

While many users have just got their hands on Windows 7 or are about to, some people have looked beyond the current release. Technologizer talked to journalists, technologists, and former Microsoft employees and gathered their mostly divergent views and thoughts. However, some of them held similar expectations in a few areas, for example, making computing devices more touch capable, integrating various devices such as mobile phones, TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes, desktop computers, and making…( read more )