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Categories: Tips (26 posts)

2024

  • Improve the tree view settings in Visual Studio Code

2023

  • Turn off monitors when locking the computer
  • Keeping your software up to date using winget and PowerShell
  • How to cancel GitHub workflows when pushing new commits on a branch
  • Retrying a bash command

2022

  • Pasting text without formatting
  • Restore old right-click context menu in Windows 11 Explorer

2021

  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Subword navigation
  • Automatically update WSL distributions using the Windows Scheduler

2020

  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Add project reference using drag & drop

2019

  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Paste as JSON
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Open the documentation of a symbol
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Default startup project
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Find the current opened file in the solution explorer
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Regex editing
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Undock/Re-dock a tool window
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Extend/Reduce selection
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Multi-line and multi-cursor editing
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Open recently closed files
  • Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Clipboard history

2018

  • Tip: Disable Windows Error Reporting (WER)
  • Tip: Automatically create a crash dump file on error
  • Comparing files using Visual Studio Code
  • Comparing files using Visual Studio

2017

  • Windows Console (cmd) Tips

2014

  • View and edit the Tab Order of Windows Forms Controls
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Gérald Barré

aka. meziantou

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

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