What Office taught me about Visual Studio? A very cool toolbox trick.
I spend a significant amount of time in PowerPoint and to get a constant look and feel in my slides, I often use the Format Painter option. Using this tool you highlight some text/image/video, click the Format Painter button and then paint some other text/image/video and it applies the format settings from the first group to the group you paint.
What if you want to do this over and over? You may think you need to highlight → click → paint over and over again, but Office has a trick – double click the button! Then you can highlight → double click → paint → paint → paint
So how does this help in Visual Studio? I am working with the UML diagrams at the moment and needed to connect a bunch of items and the first few times I did the following: Click the connector in the toolbox → click source item → click destination, repeat from start.
Suddenly I thought, maybe it works like Office and you know what? It does! You can double click a toolbox item, and then it becomes sticky and adding lots of them is easy!
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