Tag: Tips & Tricks
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How to clean up Microsoft File Transfer Manager queue
If you’re an MSDN subscriber, the Microsoft File Transfer Manager is your main downloader tool. Unfortunately sometime the download item get stuck in the queue and cannot be removed. The solution is simple. Just clean up the following folder’s content and restart the File Transfer Manager program. Windows 7 & Vista C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\File Transfer Manager\RequestQueue Windows…
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VS2010 Tips #11: Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension
Visual Studio team has released Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension. This is a great extension to increase your productivity and bring back some Visual Studio 2008 feature such as close button in the tab well. Here is the description I copied from the extension page. Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools A set…
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VS2010 Tips #10: How to change Local Help Library path
In this blog post, I want to show you how to change the path of the Local Help Library. Let’s say you want to move the location of the local content being stored. You can simply move the files and change the path. Where is it stored now? run the Help Library Manager Then click…
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VS2010 Tips #9: Moving from Multiple Documents window layout to Floating Window of Visual Studio 2010
If you’re one of the fans of Multiple Document window layout in previous versions of Visual Studio, you will miss that feature in Visual Studio 2010. Below is the options of Visual Studio 2008 And this is the option of Visual Studio 2010 Yep the setting of Multiple document is no longer there. That would…
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VS2010 Tips #8: Got annoying Visual Studio 2010 error? Try to run in Safe Mode
Sometimes not well-coded extensions/add-ons can cause very annoying error. If you got any error in running Visual Studio 2010, especially if you use lot of 3rd party extensions/add-ons, then running Visual Studio 2010 in Safe Mode will be worth to try. The Safe Mode will disable all extensions, that way you will know whether the…