I want to be able to modify a certain setting of Visual Studio right from the toolbar. Specifically, the number of parallel builds (Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions | Build and Run | maximum number of parallel project builds). It can be either an edit box right on the toolbar or two buttons setting it to certain values. I use V...
After downloading the free templates from Microsoft's site I want to combine some features of two templates together. For example, there is a "Contact Management" template and a "Marketing Site" template. Each template has its own "contacts section/form". Ideally, I want to use both templates on my SharePoint server while having them ...
How to change text "Eclipse" to some other text say "AshuEclipse" in the Header left hand corner? Note: I dont want ot change the header to show workspace ,but I want to change the word Eclipse itself. Plz suggest. ...
Background: I want to create a custom VB compiler, extending the "original" compiler, to handle my custom compile-time attributes. Question: after I've created my custom compiler and I've got an executable file capable of compiling VB code via the standard command-line interface, how do I integrate this compiler with the Visual Studio I...
Visual Studio 2010 adds a zoom setting on the bottom left of the text editor (to the left of the horizontal scroll bar) and also adopts the control + mouse scroll idiom for zooming in and out. The former is fine, but I dislike the latter as I am occasionally still holding control when I start scrolling my source code (which results in t...
I'm trying to customize that context menu which comes up when you right click the project in the Solution Explorer. When I goto: Tools - Customize - Commands - Context Menu (radio button) - Project and Solution Context Menus | Project (drop down) I get nothing in the "controls:" list. I can modify other context menus starting with "Pro...
Hi all, I really hate all my options with programming fonts. I have fairly particular tastes though: I prefer non-monowidth, since in my opinion there's no reason for the characters to be in columns. I prefer minimal line spacing, to fit more code on the screen. I will not use fonts that change size when you're selecting them. I'd prefe...
How do i customize, extend the Text Editor or color tag parts of my code? I would like visual studio to color code parts of my code can i use #region and give it a color? Is there any way to make the background between two parathesis have a different color? ( i want each code "block" to have it's own color? I've looked here for some ...
I cant find anything related in the settings while searching "tabs". I dont care about the hiding feature so much, because I always loose the context, when all the sudden a tab disappears. The order of tabs gets mixed up visually. ...
Hi, what is the most light-weight IDE that provides only the bare-bones services such as a project concept, a gui and document management facilities that can be fully customized!? I know Visual Studio has some such edition but I can't remember how it's called but if you know what I mean what I am looking for is THAT (VS bare-bones) + cr...