I want to edit a binary file but I don't want to use another tool other than Visual Studio because it's a pain to switch back and forth.
Is there perhaps a add-in or some built in functionality that can do that in Visual Studio?
+10
A:
- File>>Open>>File
- On the open file dialog at the bottom there is a down arrow on the "Open" button
- Click "Open WIth"
- Click "Binary Editor"
- Click OK
Or for the keyboard geeks out there:
- Ctrl-O
- paste filename
- tab
- tab
- down arrow
- w
- b
- Enter
Kevin Driedger
2009-11-12 19:06:10
Loved the keyboard geeks part!
Seth Illgard
2009-11-12 19:08:23
+1 for the answer, but now for a rant (not against Kevin's answer, but against these controls)... Those buttons-with-options that MS uses sometimes in file open dialogs (does this control have a commonly used name?) seem like a neat idea, but from a usability perspective they don't work well. At least for me. While there's the little down-arrow indicator on the button, it still strikes me as non-discoverable since that indicator is effectively invisible. I never notice them, and from the questions I've seen where the answer is 'use that little down arrow on the button', I'm not the only one.
Michael Burr
2009-11-12 19:18:07