Visual studio 2012 is one of best IDE I have ever used. Everyday I am discovering something new with that IDE which is more productive. Today I have discovered “Closed All But Pinned” feature. I thought It’s a good idea to write a quick tip post.

Problem with Earlier Version:

Earlier we used to have “Close All But This” feature from Visual Studio 2008 which will close all the files except the that file. But what we should do If we need to have more than one file opened. There was not way for it in Visual Studio 2008.

So if we have requirement like above situation where we need to kept open more than one file. This features comes quite handy. You just have to pin files that you want it to be opened.

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This blog will be part of visual studio 2012 features series.

I personally like the Metro UI for Visual Studio 2102 but  still some people are not happy with it. They really like Old Visual Studio 2010 layout and they wanted to have same kind of color in visual studio 2012. For those who want to change the color of Visual studio there is a plug in called Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme editor. From which you can set colors for visual studio UI and make your visual studio look colorful. Following is a link for that.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05

Once you download that from above location and click on installer it will ask for accepting terms and conditions like following.

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Visual studio is a Great IDE and there are still lots of feature that not known to developers. Incremental search is one of them. This is a amazing feature to find code in particular document and its available from Visual Studio 2010 and carried over in Visual Studio 2012. Incremental search allows developers to search in document without blocking UI and allow to search as they type.

Interesting!! right.. So let’s open visual studio and see how it works. Once you open Visual Studio and press Ctrl + I and type something it will find the string without blocking your visual studio UI. Just like following.

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Visual studio is a great IDE and I am learning everyday something new and I have found one great feature today which is available from the Visual studio 2008. So I thought it would great to be share with all you guys.

We all like to have most portion of screen to cover code part so we can view all the lines and we don’t have to use page and page down keys to navigate through code. You can have visual studio in full screen mode with View->Full Screen or via pressing Shift + Alter + Enter as shortcut..

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I have been planning this since long but now Its happened. I have created a video for visual studio 2010 code refactoring features. I have made this video public. Following is a link for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC63rE7tB4&feature=share

Here is the video..

Please see the video and let me know your feedback. I am not a trained professional in this but I have tried to create it. Hope fully I will master this technique in some time. Stay tuned for more. Till then Happy
programming.