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Visual Studio's most useful and underused tips

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Do you know Solution Tree Explorer are Searchable !!! Below ones are a saver . There's a lot of little tricks like this in Visual Studio that even the most seasoned developers sometimes miss. This phenomenon isn't limited to Visual Studio, of course. It's all software ! Here's some exceedingly useful stuff in Visual Studio (It's  free to download  and use, BTW) that folks often miss. SEARCH SOLUTION EXPLORER WITH CTRL+; You can just click the text box above the Solution Explorer to search all the nodes - visible or hidden. Or, press "Ctrl + ;" Type in anything and this shows results which match Even stuff that's DEEP in the beast. The resulting view is filtered and will remain that way until you clear the search. QUICK LAUNCH - CTRL+Q  If there is one feature that no one uses and everyone should use, it's Quick Launch. Some blogs tell us the internal telemetry numbers show that usage of Quick Launch in the single digits or lower.  Do you know

Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 4

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In this part, we'll start off by adding another XSLT file (for the news item pages), and then move on to look at how we can integrate standard .Net User Controls to Umbraco. Also available in this series: Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 1 Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 2 Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 3 Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 4 Adding the newsList Macro Create a new XSLT file (and macro) in the back-end and call it newsList . In this XSLT file we'll be using a non-standard entity, which is the HTML entity &\mdash; . In order to use this entity we need to define it in the entity list in the XSLT doctype declaration at the top of the file. To add the mdash entity add the following code within the square brackets directly after the defined non-breaking space entity: < ! ENTITY mdash " &#x2014; " > We'll save a variable so that we can easily access the newsList node in order to get its child nodes. Directly after the currentPage p