Visual Studio is the software I use and care about the most and so naturally I tend to customize it to meet my needs better.
One of the more recent customizations is mapping F1 to SolutionExplorer.SyncWithActiveDocument action. So far I’m very happy with this. F1 is getting a whole lot more action now than it used to. Try it 😉
If you are someone who uses caps lock… well, great for you. But if you are someone like me (and I guess most of the devs) who hit it only by accident then I suggest you remap caps lock to Ctrl today. Save your pinky from a carpal tunnel syndrome 😉
http://blog.horie.to/2012/06/make-capslock-additional-ctrl-in.html
Long ago when evil dudes from Red Gate started charging for Reflector an open source alternative called ILSpy emerged.
Like original Reflector it’s very useful for searching classes and methods inside of assemblies.
In projects that I work on we use Unity IoC and we do configuration fully in XML. This of course can suck monkey balls when it’s necessary to map 5 or more interfaces to their implementation which means copying class, interface, namespace and assembly names for each on of them separately.
Being lazy and optimizing close to everything I do, I wrote a small plugin to help with generating fully qualified type names and published it on GitHub (I _LOVE_ GitHub!).
Simply drop all files from Bin folder into ILSpy; find what you need and copy the type name.
Enjoy!
