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Repeated questions – a help desk problem

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A lot of effort at a help desk is spent in answering the xact same type of questions over and over again to different users. And no matter how many time you ask people to search the FAQs first, you still keep getting the same questions. Google groups has a very innovative and simple to it. Just look at the screen shots below and you will know

The google answer to the help desk problem

The google answer to the help desk problem

Written by Abhishek

August 29, 2009 at 4:48 pm

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Class member search – Visual Studio .NET 2005

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Being able to search members of classes that your code uses is quite handy. Be it classes that you have written yourself, or classes in other libraries your code references. You can do that by going to View -> Object Browser OR View -> Class View.

Class member search VS .NET 2005

Class member search VS .NET 2005

Written by Abhishek

March 2, 2009 at 6:44 am

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Problem – Unable to reset fonts and colors after Visual Studio import settings

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So you have tried making your IDE hot. And turns out you did not like the colors much. So you want to reset Visual Studio settings. You may have tried using the Tools -> Import and Export Settings to reset your fonts and colors. But it DOES NOT RESET colors and fonts.

Tools->Import Export Settings

Tools->Import Export Settings

To reset colors and fonts, here is what you need to do: Tools -> Options->

Reset VS colors and fonts

Reset VS colors and fonts

Hope it helps :)

Written by Abhishek

February 27, 2009 at 6:47 am

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