This guy is hardly the first one to say it, but he’s right: if you want to save yourself lots of time, remap Visual Studio’s F1 key away from help. We all know the Visual Studio help system sucks hard, so just give up on it. Welcome to a world where a missed ESC slap doesn’t paralyze your computer for 2 painfully grueling minutes.
But what to remap it to? So many ideas!
- Visual Studio’s REAL Help System (aka, Google (Yes, not Bing))
- Collapse All in Solution Explorer
- Resharper’s Unit Test Explorer
- Open Firefox and Google For Selected Word
- Find Current Item in Solution Explorer
- Spell Check
- Compile Current Project
- Make Me Coffee (May require Spouse addin)
- My Personal Favorite: ReSharper.UnitTest_RunCurrentSession
Sock it to me now!
Can I add my favorite to your list? ReSharper.SilentCleanupCode
@Matt
I’m totally going to try that one out, I hadn’t even considered it.