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Stuff about Visual Studio Code and legacy Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Code
VS Code Can Do That: Neat features and extensions
Observations about why Visual Studio Code seems so much faster [reddit]
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts I can never remember.
Editing related
Shortcut |
Action |
Reference |
Ctrl+Shift+L |
Expand the focus of the current word, select all occurences in document, and change simultaneously |
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Alt+Up, Alt+Down |
Move a line up or down |
https://twitter.com/miguelsolorio_/status/1067564999097311232 |
Navigation-related:
Shortcut |
Action |
Reference |
Ctrl+P |
Open file |
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Ctrl+T |
Symbols in workspace |
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Ctrl+Shift+O |
Symbols in current file |
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Ctrl+Shift+K |
Create a bookmark |
https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1022184804446482433 for Bookmarks extension |
Ctrl+Shift+J |
Jump between bookmarks |
CLI shortcuts
From https://twitter.com/Tyriar/status/1013787785973547008:
code .: Open the current folder in a new window
code -r .: Open the current folder in the current window
code -a .: Add the current folder to the current window
VS2015 minimal installation
Visual Studio 2015 Build Tools
Lightweight C++ Installation in Visual Studio “15”
Building Visual Studio projects on the command-line
Generate a CMake project, targeting Visual Studio 2015:
cd C:\Users\Public\Documents
mkdir build
cd build
cmake --config Release -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" `
-D CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=M:\dependencies\ `
N:\Documents\GitHub\Altus_Standalone
# Build using 4 CPUs
cmake --build . --config Release -- /m:4For building a project generated by CMake, and using Visual Studio 2015:
& "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" .\altus.sln /p:Configuration=Release /maxcpucount
See also: Use the Microsoft C++ toolset from the command line
See what DLL dependencies an EXE depends upon
# Open Visual Studio Native Tools command prompt dumpbin.exe /dependents whatever.exe
Offline installation
See: https://www.techtronic.us/blog/post/technology/visual-studio-2012-update-2-offline-installer/
tl;dr: Run offline installer with "/Layout". For MSVC15 (Visual Studio 2016), it was changed to --layout, which must be given an absolute path.
Version Naming
Visual Studio 2012 is "11"; Visual Studio 2013 is "12; Visual Studio 2015 is "14; Visual Studio 2017 is "15".
Boost uses msvc-11.0, msvc-14.0, etc.
Etc
Best unknown MSVC flag: d2cgsummary. Option highlights the functions that compile the slowest. Officially become documented in Visual Studio 2017: Throughput improvements & advice
Why Mixing Visual Studio Versions is Evil. tl:dr: Make sure the same (or preferably, only 1) VS runtime allocates memory, and pass only primitive objects (e.g. float) or arrays of those types.
