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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 [...]

Last time I forgot to mention one important thing - how to assign a keyboard shortcut to your macro. Often you don't need any button for your macro, the shortcut is enough. Or you can have both. As I already wrote, macro is similar to any named command. So to assign a shortcut to it:

Go [...]

Well, not very accurate title. In fact, we cannot place a macro itself on the toolbar or menu. Instead we can create a button for it. But let's start from the beginning.
You have created your super macro which saves you a lot of work in Visual Studio .NET (see how to create macro). It works [...]