Christophe Herreman

Aug 26

Duplicate line command for Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2005 One of the things I'm missing in Visual Studio is a keyboard shortcut to duplicate a line of code. I use this command alot in Eclipse/FDT (Ctrl+Shift+D) and once you get used to it, you can't live without it. After googling around for a moment, I found this VB code that does just that. The great thing is that in Visual Studio you can create your own macro and attach it to a keyboard shortcut.

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Visual Basic:

Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Module DuplicateLastLineModule
Sub DuplicateLine()
Dim line As String
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(0)
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine(True)
line = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(0)
DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = line
End Sub
End Module

To create the macro, just go to the macro explorer ("Tools->Macros->Macro Explorer" or Alt+F8) and copy paste the code in a new module.

NowÂ just assing a keyboard shortcut to it:

go to Tools->Options...
under Environment, click Keyboard
in the "Show Commands Containing" textbox, enter "duplicate" (this according to the name you gave the module.)
you should now see the macro in the list below
choose "Text Editor" from the "Use new shortcut in" list
set focus in the "Press shortcut keys" textbox and hit the combination on the keyboard you whish to use for it (Ctrl+Shift+D in my case)
hit the "Assign" button
you should now see the shortcut in the "Shortcuts for selected command" textbox
hit the OK button

And that's it. Enjoy !

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Jun 14

ASP.NET newbie

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With the departure of one of our ASP.NET co-workers, I decided to start learning ASP.NET and the whole Visual Studio .NET story. So I installed VS.NET, SQL Server and all that was needed and was about to create my first C# ASP.NET application when...

Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services

... I just installed all the software, updated the .NET framework and then this? I was about to uninstall the whole thing and head over to Eclipse for some FAME pleasure ;-), but then decided to "google" for a solution and was more than happy to find one fast. So here it is.

- Open Visual Studio Command prompt., via Start-> Programs -> VS.NET 2003 -> Tools -> Command Prompt
- Type â€œaspnet_regiis -iâ€œ and press enter.

The output should be:

c:\>aspnet_regiis -i
Start installing ASP.NET (1.1.4322.0).
Finished installing ASP.NET (1.1.4322.0).

And now back to Visual Studio for some C#'n.
Also, if anyone has some interesting links to ASP.NET resources, feel free to leave them in the comments.