Sara Ford's Weblog
My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at Microsoft
CodePlex Tips Gadget
Ever since I joined the CodePlex team, I’ve wanted to learn something web developer-ish. At long...
Author: saraford Date: 04/09/2009
You can easily print CodePlex wiki pages - #012
On the sub-navigation bar, you’ll see the link Print View. Clicking on this link will open the wiki...
Author: saraford Date: 04/09/2009
How to view all comments on all wiki pages - #011
On the homepage of any CodePlex project, you’ll find the “View All Comments” link in the secondary...
Author: saraford Date: 04/08/2009
How to leave comments on a CodePlex project wiki page - #010
On any wiki page, excluding the homepage, you’ll find the section at the bottom to leave comments....
Author: saraford Date: 04/07/2009
How to create a new CodePlex project wiki page - #009
From time to time I see questions on Twitter (yes, I search for “codeplex” using TweetDeck) about...
Author: saraford Date: 04/06/2009
How to edit a project’s homepage / wiki? - #008
A better question is who should be able to edit the project’s wiki? Sneak peek below at new designs...
Author: saraford Date: 04/03/2009
How to add related projects to your project homepage - #007
We offer a section on a CodePlex project homepage to list related projects at the bottom of the...
Author: saraford Date: 04/02/2009
How to exclude project member site traffic in the Stats tab – #006
No April Fool’s jokes this year. Sorry. By default, we include all site traffic in the Stats page....
Author: saraford Date: 04/01/2009
How to enable / disable the discussion tab - #005
Also on the Edit Project Summary & Details page, you will see the option Show Discussion Tab?...
Author: saraford Date: 03/31/2009
How to customize how your logo appears on your project’s banner - #004
On the Edit Project Summary & Details page, there are five different ways you can display your...
Author: saraford Date: 03/30/2009
You can rename the URL for your CodePlex project? - #003
Under Edit Project Summary & Details, you can change the URL for your CodePlex project. And we...
Author: saraford Date: 03/27/2009
How to write a great project summary so your project is discoverable? - #002
The CodePlex Project Directory shows your project summary, and not the initial contents of your...
Author: saraford Date: 03/26/2009
How to modify your project summary (or description)? - #001
During the project creation process, the wizard asked you to provide a project summary (see below)....
Author: saraford Date: 03/25/2009
Introducing CodePlex Tips
Am I really doing this to myself again? Well yes, kinda. One thing I learned from the Visual Studio...
Author: saraford Date: 03/25/2009
Photos from the “Day after Mardi Gras” Geek Dinner in Mississippi
The day after Mardi Gras, I drove up to Hattiesburg, Mississippi for a Geek Dinner. We had a good...
Author: saraford Date: 03/16/2009
Closure
Author: saraford Date: 03/06/2009
Introducing the Open Source Club on CodePlex – Project of the Month: Rawr
Over on the CodePlex Team Blog, I announced the Open Source Club on CodePlex. An except from the...
Author: saraford Date: 03/06/2009
Finally had lunch with my book editors, who are blogging and tweeting now
Last week, I finally got to meet my book editors. As I stated in the acknowledgements of my book, I...
Author: saraford Date: 02/11/2009
Geek Dinner w/ Me in Hattiesburg, Miss. on Feb 25, 2009
I’m going to be in town after Mardi Gras, so I thought it would be fun to do geek dinner that...
Author: saraford Date: 02/10/2009
CodePlex 2008 Stats published
Over on the CodePlex blog, I just posted the stats for the year in review. Here’s a sneak peek: Site...
Author: saraford Date: 01/26/2009
Relive the Tip of the Day series in Video! with Scott Cate
Head over to Scott Cate’s blog to relive the Tip of the Day series, but with videos this time. Scott...
Author: saraford Date: 01/23/2009
Attending CodeMash 2009
I’m heading back to Ohio next week for another CodeMash. My write-up from last year says it all. And...
Author: saraford Date: 01/02/2009
Did you know that today’s tip on msinfo32.exe ends the series? -#382
Cause nothing lasts forever… even cold November rain My most sincere thanks to you for reading the...
Author: saraford Date: 12/19/2008
Did you know… How to optimize Visual Studio for multi-monitors? - #381
This is really a repost from 3 (and even 4) years ago when Tip of the Day was just a weekly series....
Author: saraford Date: 12/18/2008
Did you know… There is an Open Source command in Visual Studio? - #380
A while back, when I was collecting Visual Studio tips, the “Open Source” command was pointed out to...
Author: saraford Date: 12/17/2008
Did you know… You can go directly to the installed code samples from within Visual Studio? - #379
This tip is specific for Visual Studio 2008. You can easily find the samples that have been...
Author: saraford Date: 12/16/2008
Did you know… How to turn on or off Dynamic Help? – #378
I feel obligated to talk about Dynamic Help. In any feature area that I tested, there was always the...
Author: saraford Date: 12/15/2008
Did you know… You can narrow search results by turning off partial matches? - #377
If you do a search for the phrase “how to create a custom winform control” using the default options...
Author: saraford Date: 12/12/2008
Did you know… How to tweak your search results? - #376
Today’s tip is just a collection of some tweaks you can make to your search results. Although 16...
Author: saraford Date: 12/11/2008
CodePlex in Denmark and Sweden
Last week, I spoke at the Engineering Excellence / Trustworthy Computing Forum to Microsoft...
Author: saraford Date: 12/10/2008
Did you know… You can save search queries, but not sure about the filters? - #375
According to my notes (taken on July 11, 2007, so it’s been a while), you should be able to save...
Author: saraford Date: 12/10/2008
Did you know… How to sync your current help page with the Contents tree, even if the option isn’t available? - #374
If you bring up a help page by pressing F1, doing a search, filtering via the Index, or any other...
Author: saraford Date: 12/09/2008
Did you know… You can use F1 to get Help anywhere, even in a web browser - #373
Once upon a time, a computer programmer drowned at sea. Many <insert occupation here>...
Author: saraford Date: 12/08/2008
Did you know… You can create toolbar buttons to quickly toggle your favorite VS Settings? – #372
I never knew we put in object model support for the Import / Export Settings feature. When I was...
Author: saraford Date: 12/05/2008
Did you know… How to remove items from the Recent Projects and Recent Files menus? - #371
Update: i’ve fixed the registry key for the recent files. ironically in my VS Tips talk today in...
Author: saraford Date: 12/04/2008
Did you know… There’s a macro for listing out all the keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio? - #370
This sample has been around for ages, at least since Visual Studio .NET 2003 era. According to the...
Author: saraford Date: 12/03/2008
Video from CodePlex Town Hall meeting at PDC now available on Channel 9
I do most of my blogging about CodePlex over on the CodePlex team blog, but every now and then...
Author: saraford Date: 12/02/2008
Did you know… You can use Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn to switch among the project properties tags? - #369
Recently (as in August of this year), I met Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer in the UK who was in...
Author: saraford Date: 12/02/2008
Did you know… You can double-click on the properties folder in the Solution Explorer to open the project properties page - #368
This was a user-submitted tip from back in May 2008. I really do read all incoming email, but it...
Author: saraford Date: 12/01/2008
Did you know… There’s is a Go To Definition navigation stack?! - #367
update 2 dec 2008: This feature originated in C++ over 10 years ago. My bad C++ folks for my earlier...
Author: saraford Date: 11/28/2008
Did you know… There’s a way to have Visual Studio log its activity for troubleshooting? - #366
There’s a built-in command line switch devenv.exe /log to log Visual Studio activity, e.g. which...
Author: saraford Date: 11/27/2008
Did you know… How to add a Linked Item to a project - #365
This feature is helpful when you need a common file shared among projects, like a bitmap, readme,...
Author: saraford Date: 11/26/2008
Did you know… Visual Studio comes with an image library for you to use in your applications? - #364
Starting in Visual Studio 2005, you’ll find the Visual Studio Image Library, a zip file that...
Author: saraford Date: 11/25/2008
Did you know… You can customize how search results are displayed in the Find Results window? - #363
Argh! I wish I had found this one in time for the book. A second edition, maybe? I’d hate to be...
Author: saraford Date: 11/24/2008
Did you know… Dock your Call Stack window alongside the Solution Explorer for a better debugging experience - #362
Whenever I found a bug that required the developer to investigate on my machine, I swear the first...
Author: saraford Date: 11/21/2008
Did you know… Ctrl+K, Ctrl+v allows you to quickly search for objects within your solution? - #361
Another good keyboard shortcut many don’t know about. I only say that because I forgot all about...
Author: saraford Date: 11/20/2008
Did you know… You can use devenv.exe /edit to open a file in an existing Visual Studio instance - #360
Visual Studio has a command line argument you can specify to open a file in an existing instance of...
Author: saraford Date: 11/19/2008
Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359
We’ve all seen smart tags before, the little line that appears whether we’re renaming something or...
Author: saraford Date: 11/18/2008
Did you know… you can display a license in the Content Installer - #358
Directly from the help documentation: To display an End User License Agreement (EULA) in the Visual...
Author: saraford Date: 11/17/2008