I ran across the Consolas Font Pack the other day. It is an optimized Microsoft clearType font specifically designed for use with Visual Studio.
Speaking of fonts, I am currently using the ProggyCleanTTSZ font. This font and others like it can be found from the Proggy Fonts website.
A little Google search also led me to the following resources for programming fontsā¦
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<li>Monospace/Fixed Width Programmerās Fonts</li>
<li>Programming Fonts</li>
</ul>
For those of you who donāt know about snippets or who are sad that c# didnāt come with many snippets installed, here is a List of Microsoft Snippets that you can install.
Once installed (double-clicking vsi files) you can access the snippets either by typing in their shortcut name and hitting tab twice or by clicking Ctrl-K-S.
I made a custom SOAP snippet using Snippy to call a Web Service method from ASP.NET. To import my snippet use āTools->Code Snippet Managerā¦->Importā. My snippetās shortcut is āsoapā.
In addition, GotCodeSnippets.NET, has a lot of other snippets submitted by the .NET community.
I told many of you about this a month or so earlier, but I thought Iād mention it again since the deadline is coming up.
There is a Free SQL Prompt Intellisense Tool availble from Red-Gate until September 1st.
Personally, I think this should have been part of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, but I guess it just didnāt make the cut.
As I develop, it seems I am using regular expressions more and more. So, I am always on the lookout for a good tool to help me edit and verify my expressions.
I used to use an online tool called the Regex .NET Tester, but recently I have found a rich thick client called The Regulator. This is a free advanced regular expression editor written by Roy Osherove.
Roy has also written a regular expression creation tool for beginners called Regulazy. I havenāt tried this one, but it looks like it might be a good learning tool.
In addition to the tools above I find that a good regular expression cheet sheet comes in useful every once in a while. There are two good cheet sheets located at the RegExLib and Visibone websites.
It appears Microsoft has opened up the MSDN Library to the public!
This is great news for those that donāt have the ability or desire to fork over the money required for a MSDN subscription.
The MSDN Library May 2006 Edition is currently available. Future editions will also be available when they are released.
