Month: July 2014
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Unescape String in Watch Window – Visual Studio
Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to remove the escape characters from a string in the watch window. All you’ve got to do is append “,nq” (short for no quotes) to the watch variable name. MyLongString becomes MyLongString,nq This removes all of the quotes and line breaks. Pretty handy for when you’ve got…
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How to Open the Same File Twice in Visual Studio
Hey everyone, Today I was working on a fairly large class and needed to compare two different areas of code. I’m used to using text editors such as notepad++ and sublime where I would normally just open the file multiple times. It turns out that Visual Studio has a similar feature, although it’s admittedly a…
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