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What is the first thing you do when you install Visual Studio?

Asked 2008-09-28T14:37:28.950
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What is the first thing you do when you install Visual Studio? I am talking about anything customization-wise (so we don't get answers based on 'I create a new project').

Do you have a favorite font?

Do you have a must have extension you couldn't possibly live without?

Do you have a keyboard shortcut you like to set?

I am interested to know your favorites.

For me, I only change the font to Calibri, I find it is easier to read, and I can fit more text on the screen.

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Install Visual Assist

answered 2008-09-28T16:13:23.103
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I turn off drag-and-drop text editing since it's way too easy to do it by accident.

answered 2008-09-28T14:38:57.713
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Install Resharper :)

answered 2008-09-28T14:52:42.983
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Import my settings file (which I keep in source control and share between my computers).

answered 2008-09-28T14:52:58.850
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1) Set the font to Tahoma (mono spaced fonts - pah!).

2) CodeRush / Resharper

... and for web projects, VS2008 'Run As Administrator' as I prefer wep apps to run under IIS

answered 2008-10-01T13:24:02.923
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  1. Enable the 80 column marker (requires registry hack in older versions of VS)
  2. Set the font to Lucida Console
  3. Use tabs for indentation and set tab width to 4
  4. Enable line numbers
answered 2008-10-01T15:27:29.087
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Type Ctrl+D and ">alias ff Edit.FindinFiles" so I can do Ctrl+D ">ff $term" next time I want to search all my files for $term.

answered 2009-03-07T21:44:55.020

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