I have lengthy functions in VB.NET (VS2008) and I'd like to shrink them down. I know about the #region directives, but they don't work inside functions. I was wondering if anyone knew of any plugins for visual studio 2008 that would allow me to fold if statements, loops and try catch statements. I've found a couple of plugins for Visual...
I'm going to do something I never thought I'd do... learn how to program for Apple hardware . After working in C, C++, C#, .NET, and even in the golden days of DOS (a little DOS4G/W memory extender in Borland Turbo-C, anyone?) and even as a kid, playing around with Atari 8-Bit Turbo-BASIC, I feel a little traitorous on multiple levels ...
Is there a plug-in (or built-in feature) for Visual Studio 2008 to be able to do a quick in-line find in your code? I am unhappy with the find feature (Ctrl+F). I don't like how it pops up in its own window. I think it would be much better if it was more like the Firefox find. (Try Ctrl+F in Firefox). I like how you start typing and it ...
I was watching one of those incredibly retarded tv quiz money scams last night as I was reading reddit and they posed the question: if you wrote down all the numbers between 32 to 287 how may times would you write down the number 6? So I did some quick maths in my head (there are 11 sixes in each 100, there are two hundreds in betw...
I hope the question says it all, really. I use the old Turbo Pascal type colours (navy blue background and white, yellow text etc) in all my Delphi IDEs, including D2007. I'm sufficiently colourblind that I can't really make out the red squiggly lines in my code - but I find the feature really useful when I do notice them. I've tried sw...
Does any text editor (such as Notepad++) syntax highlight MediaWiki code? This might not be strictly programming related though the Wiki script is a language by itself. ...
Imagine you could ask someone to develop your ideal IDE for you, what features would it need to have? This is largely inspired by a related SO question ("Improving the way we write code") and a response to it listing various interesting and desirable IDE features from a user interface point of view. By asking this question, I am hoping...
Does anyone know of a program that lets you write javascript; then execute it - all the while having nothing to do with a browser? I don't want DOM manipulation, the equivalent of Console.Write is enough for me. I'm thinking of something along the lines of DrScheme - nice big code editing window, let's you run it, stop it. While all t...
Hello all, I am looking for a Text Editor on Windows which is integrated with GIT (check out, check in from the UI). Also, it would be nice is this editor could also support Python syntax highlighting. Is there anything like that available? Thanks! ...
By making use of the remote feature in vim, is it possible to reuse an instance of vim to load up multiple files as needed. It will be nice to have that facility from within the same terminal instance. I am more keen to have a tab based interface, which available in vim 7+ The scenario should be Open terminal vim file1.cpp Edit - Sav...
Can somebody recommend, if there is any, of course, a project management plugin for Vim (GVim actually, if it makes any difference). I'm not looking for anything extravagant, just something which will keep my files under one project name, and some sort of buffer which will display what files go under what project. You know what I mean,...
What are excellent C++ IDE options that support the new standard c++0x (windows os friendly) besides visual .net 2010 (the beta is way too slow/clunky)? ...
Bear with me on this one. Consider an iterative cycle of a developer. Make Changes Run Test So my question: is the elapsed time for the "Run" phase tending to zero the most efficient? Or, at some point, does a lower "Run" time result in less efficient iterations, and less efficiency overall? Clearly, a smaller "Run" time is a sup...
Often, when I am developing in PHP, I want to see minor changes instantaneously. This requires me to either FTP to a web server and then refresh, or use a localhost server, both of which(as I understand) are essentially the same thing. What I would like to know is, is there an IDE or other way to parse PHP output in a dynamic fashion? ...
I'm new to Ruby on Rails and so far, I'm having a lot of fun learning it. Coming from the .NET world, it's been quite a switch as my IDE (Visual Studio 2008) sort of handles everything for me, while in Rails everything has been done via multiple applications (Terminal, TextMate, etc). I've started taking a closer look at RubyMine as an ...
How to use boost libraries with Codeblocks(Windows) ? What i need to do after downloading the library from boost site ? Any idea, suggestions, pointers ? ...
The situation goes like this, I have two network interfaces in my macbook pro. One is a statically defined Ethernet interface and the other one is a DHCP configured wireless interface. I am trying to figure out how to configure a specific java project to use my statically wired interface only and not simply pick the first one in the lis...
What's the best free IDE/Editor for working with CSS and HTML which has thousands of divs and its really hard to see which div is connected to what? Such as if it could highlight the corresponding divs, or show a +/- sign next to them to expand/collapse them? ...
Hi, I am using eclipse for java programming but lines in the editor look little closer. And I want to change the amount spacing/gap between lines. Is there any option in eclipse that I can use to achieve this effect ? ...
I've been in search for a good text editor/IDE which is cross-platform and supports Mercurial, Git, or allows me to add in other version control systems. I've pretty much run the gauntlet on free programs and now I'm willing to buy a license for a good program thats under $100 (I qualify for academic discounts if applicable). I typical...