Windows Vista Command-Prompt from Here

Friday, March 9, 2007 Labels: , ,
I stumbled upon a nice feature of Windows Vista Explorer. If you right-click on a folder in Explorer, it will provide you with a different set of options. One of them is "Open Command Window Here," that opens a DOS prompt with the selected folder as the default path. That is cool, since the Windows XP Command-Prompt Here PowerToy was invaluable.

UPDATED: After looking at it again, I noticed that there is one other additional item that is present when holding the Shift key down: "Copy As Path," which simply copies that folder's complete path into the Clipboard. Cool!

Here's a screen shot:

Visual Studio clipboard ring and other keyboard shortcuts

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Labels: , ,

Visualstudiohacks.com is always my first choice for getting the low-down on Visual Studio. On their site I found a great shortcut key to cycle through the VS clipboard ring. In doing so, I remembered that VS actually had a clipboard ring, too. I remember being excited that they were adding one, but I must've forgotten about it. It's excellent. I found it here: http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/navtricks.

CLIPBOARD RING

Ctrl + Shift + V

Cycle through items copied to clipboard

The clipboard ring's a terrific tool for doing mass edits. Move a number of items into the clipboard ring via any Copy or Cut command, then cycle through those items as you're pasting away.

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