Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip

Posted by: youve been HAACKED, on 23 Jun 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu. What it doesnt tell you is that theres a two key combination that will also expand it. I learned this one from Karen Liu of the C# IDE team who also happens to have a blog post with a nice collection...

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