Linked by Will Senn on Thu 22nd Apr 2004 06:30 UTC
This article is intended to give you a practical recipe for creating a simple Web Control and extending Visual Studio with support for the control. The control itself is a basic Country Code drop down list such as you would find on many profile entry pages.
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Rodrigo,
Sure it's 'there'... somewhere... or I could 'write a macro' - or in UltraEdit, just press the button or key to do it. I think we aren't talking about the same things, though - you are talking in terms of Code editing only, I'm talking about all code related editing. For example, let's say you are reading a string from the database and writing it to xml - you log the string that you are writing to xml in a text log file - another program is reading the xml and complaining that it's invalid xml at character 92, line 40. You bring up the log file in VS - looks fine - what's going on? No telling, bring up UltraEdit and look at the line - looks fine, what's going on? Click Hex and lo and behold some snark has added an emdash (non-ascii character that looks like an ascii '-') to the data in the database.
You are correct that if you dig deeply enough into the capabilities of Studio's editing facilities, that it's got a lot of the same functionality - it's just not nearly as accessible and carries a ton of overhead - takes it forever to start up - less than a sec for UE or Textpad. I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, either. I use VS's editor for writing code - like I said intellisense is great, but as all around editor - forget it...
Will