| The Anchor Property
The .NET Framework provides functionality to access the windows registry through a number of simple classes. In this video a Windows Form application is used to illustrate multiple uses for registry access in .NET applications.
| | Block Selections
The Visual Studio .NET development environment offers a number of convenient features when working with code. This video shows how to select a rectangular block of text within an editing window in Visual Studio .NET 2003.
| | Clipboard Ring
Visual Studio .NET provides a clipboard ring, similar to Office applications, that makes it easier to work with your code. The clipboard ring can be used to store copied and cut text, which can then be pasted selectively.
| | Controls Alignment Demo
This demo shows how to use the tools within the Visual Studio .NET IDE to gain precise control over the layout of the controls on a form. See how to use control alignment, locking, ordering and the use of the grid.
| | Customizable Toolbars
Create a more customizable environment than previous versions of Visual Studio. Add and remove toolbars, customize existing toolbars, and create new toolbars.
| | Distributed Debugging
See how Visual Studio .NET introduces true enterprise debugging, letting you step through the tiers of an application, even if they reside on different machines.
| | Dynamic Help
The Dynamic Help window provides better access to context-sensitive help information than the previous versions. It displays Help information related to the item highlighted in the IDE.
| | Incremental Search
This video shows how to use the incremental search capabilities of Visual Studio .NET to quickly find text matches within a source file without using the Find dialog box.
| | Line Numbers
This video shows how to toggle line numbering in Visual Studio .NET 2003 editors. It also demonstrates how to turn on line numbers for print output.
| | Menu Editor
See how you can easily edit and create menus directly on the design surface in Visual Basic .NET. Learn how to use the MainMenu control on your forms, how to create multiple menus, separators, and how to handle click events.
| | Customizable Profiles
This video introduces customizable profiles and how they can be used to tailor your development environment.
| | Server Explorer
This video shows how you can easily access Performance Counter, Event Log, and other information directly from within the Visual Studio .NET environment using the Server Explorer.
| | Unified IDE
With previous versions, separate development environments existed for Visual Basic, C++, and so on. Now Visual Studio .NET unifies all programming languages and project types into a single development environment.
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| | Backward and forward navigation
Use backward and forward navigation features to revisit previously viewed sections of code. As the number of files grows, it becomes an effective technique for drilling into your code.
| | Bookmarks
The Visual Studio .NET development environment offers a number of enhancements for bookmarks, as well as a powerful task feature for navigating through code. This video introduces bookmarks and task list shortcuts.
| | Code Annotation
Annotate your code with comments (such as TODO), and see how these comments appear as tasks. This makes it easy to remember items that need to be completed, and navigate back to those sections.
| | Cross-Language Debugging
You need not open separate instances of the IDE to work with different languages and project types at the same time. Now you have a unified environment that provides great cross-language and cross-project debugging.
| | Automatic Docking
The Dock property allows you to rapidly create complex user interfaces that resize properly as the user resizes or manipulates the window.
| | Hiding and Push Pins
See how you can easily hide and display Visual Studio .NET windows such as the Properties, Server Explorer, Locals, Solution Explorer, and other windows by using push pins.
| | IntelliSense Enhancements
Learn about the IntelliSense enhancements in Visual Basic .NET 2003, such as the "Most Frequently Used" (MFU) feature and the IntelliSense support in the Command Window in Immediate and Command modes.
| | Macros
A new feature in Visual Studio .NET is the ability to author macros within the development environment that can make code editing and other aspects of using the development environment much more productive.
| | Multi-Column Menus
Learn how the BarBreak property of the MenuItem class allows you to create menus that cascade horizontally.
| | Expandable / Collapsible Regions
Organize code by creating expandable / collapsible code blocks. Learn how to create custom regions, how to nest regions, how to create temporary regions, and how to use keystroke combinations to expand and collapse them.
| | Start Page
This video introduces how you can use the Start Page to access valuable developer resources from inside the Visual Studio .NET. This makes it easy to access information you need during your development tasks.
| | Word Wrap
This video shows how to toggle word wrap in Visual Studio .NET 2003. It also demonstrates how to toggle word wrap globally using the Options dialog window.
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