Quick Search and Call Hierarchy in VS 2010
I’m not kind of guy hungry for thousands of new features in my current development IDE. In fact I’m happy for decently smart editor, because my work mainly involves BL etc. But couple of new features in new Visual Studio 2010 I really like.
One is called Quick Search. It simply allows you to find a lot of stuff from simple window – files in solution, methods etc. And it’s smart too. If you have file named, let’s say MyCoolClass.cs, you can type just MCC and the file will be found too. Nice, isn’t it? Almost as fast as navigating in text in VI editor. 
And other is called Call Hierarchy. It’s simple tree showing you who is calling selected methods and vice versa. You can easily traverse through this tree and see paths where your code is going. And you can of course navigate to methods selected in the window.
Simple functions, but may help a lot. What is your favourite in upcoming VS or current VS maybe with some plugin?
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March 11th, 2009 at 10:57
I think that navigation in Visual Studio is currently more efficient and faster than in VI editor. Everyone thinks that VI is the most effective text editor, but for simple and often done things like saving a file you need to press about 5 keys instead of Ctrl-S.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:02
I don’t think so (but I’m used to use VI a lot). For saving you need only “:” and “w” (and maybe Esc if you’re in edit mode). If you need to jump in text, using keyboard, in VI you’re way faster than in VS.
July 19th, 2010 at 16:06
I like gedit + grep + bash much more.
But to debug, VS is greater than gdb in general.
July 19th, 2010 at 16:09
Yes, I’m using grep too. But sometimes you can’t match exactly what you need (overloads, property names with only different suffix, …).
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