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Unlike VS 2005, there is no Import/Export Settings function in VS .NET 2002 and 2003. This is really useful if you want to backup your IDE settings (fonts&colors, toolbars, external tools, editor settings etc.) for the case you’ll need to reinstall Visual Studio. Or you might want to share IDE settings among all users.
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Did you ever want to write very long string constant in your source code? You surely did if you wanted to display longer text in message box, for example. Or you wanted to create a macro which generates some longer source code. In this case you needed the code template stored in a string if [...]

VS 2005 introduced new feature which confuses many people. Newly opened documents are placed in reverse order - to the left of already opened pages and not to the right as it used to be in VS 2002/2003 and as we know it from majority of programs that use tabbed interface. Existing documents are scrolled [...]

"How can I share one source code file across several projects? I want to have this file on one place only and use it in multiple projects so when I modify it in one project, the changes get automatically reflected in all projects. When I add existing file to the project, a local copy is [...]

I've just played with one macro and wanted to debug it. I placed a breakpoint and ran the macro. Macro worked fine but it didn't stop on breakpoint. It took me some time to realize that you must explicitly enable debugging in Macros IDE:

In macros IDE, go to menu Debug and select Enable Debugging.

You can [...]