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Yes, but only a Leslie, it's not a full Leslie Nielsen.
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How about we call it a Leslie Gore[^]?
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TTFN - Kent
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I think Leslie Valiant[^] is more appropriate, given the topic of the site.
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Oh you're talking about writing code I thought the airlines had some new kind of Fat Ass Tax? 
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I was given the tip-off yesterday about the Productivity Power Tools extension for VS2010+. A work colleague installed it for me and what a fine bit of work it is. It probably has more features than I need but the one I find the best is the addition of a file list accordion which replaces the sometimes awkward tabs in the IDE. You can also pin the files in the accordion. You lose some screen estate but not so much you notice. If you haven't come across it before I really recommend it.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I can only agree with that.
Also the search/replace window takes way less space than the old search and the colorisation makes it way easier to see what you were looking for. The Solution Navigator is a nice feature too (ClassView including members where you can directly navigate to)
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Yep. I wouldn't want to use VS without it any more than I would want to be without ReSharper.
Moving the list of open files into a vertical sidebar instead of a horizontal scroll list and the color coded scroll bar are both worth the price of admission (even if the latter, and the R# markup bar don't align with each other if you have anything collapsed). Solution navigator is great too. Unlike Nicholas, the alternate find option is the only feature I've disabled. I detest popup UI elements; and use the standard find and replace dialog docked in the same location as the properties panel.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Unlike Nicholas, the alternate find option is the only feature I've disabled.
I've disabled this as well, though I think you're stuck with it in VS 2012.
In VS 2010 I have an extension (toolbar buttons) that lets me see in advance whether I am currently in case-sensitive match or whole word match mode. This doesn't play well with the power tools find.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: I've disabled this as well, though I think you're stuck with it in VS 2012.
I've done very little with 2012 since my last round of project starts predated when we got R#er upgrades; and no one wanted to change versions in midstream. I've sitll got the old dialog stacked with properties; but the stupid popup is catching Ctrl-F/H for me too.
I just Googled it; Ctrl-Shift-F goes to the old find dialog, and you can always remap keys[^] if you want to.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Ctrl-Shift-F goes to the old find dialog,
Thanks for that. I have VS Express at home but haven't used it much. I'll try that next time.
Kevin
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If you leave a pack of butter on the cooling radiator and the heating comes on then move the butter BEFORE it melts and dribbles all over the floor.
speramus in juniperus
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Why? 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Me wanted butter for me bread for me soup. Butter was hard, it is now runnier than the soup.
speramus in juniperus
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This is one of the few acceptable uses of a microwave...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Softening butter (and defrosting)
It's got to be useful for something, and that is about it for me - apart from being a lockable cage where I can put food to cool so our Feline Flea Factory can't get it...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: food to cool so our Feline Flea Factory can't get it.
You and me too (we have three FFFs).
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Me no have microwave; well not here anyway.
I do however have a huge pot of babgulyasleves what I cooked last night. It should be nicely matured now and I shall partake of a bowl in around 'as soon as it's heated' minutes.
speramus in juniperus
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So mop it up with the bread. Simple!
Will Rogers never met me.
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TOTD = twit of the day?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I wsa thinking Tip, but Twit'll do. 
speramus in juniperus
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Tit OTD, as in the person who did it...
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If you share your hostel room with a bunch of German grannies that - as soon as they enter - turn down the heating, open the windows wide to let the cold in, then ask you if this is ok with you, then you put your camera that got drenched by the rough weather when snapping pictures with, of and for the California Dreamies on the only safe space to let it dry which happens to be the radiator, and then - while you are out (with said dreamies) - that guy from Berlin you already met on the island mountain weeks ago gets the last bunk in said room, closing the windows and turning up the heating to the maximum without removing previously drenched camera from the radiator so said camera gets heated up well touchability, you will find out that surprisingly, after about a week of practically not working at all, your camera starts working again, with minor issues but generally still making decent photos.
That's what you learn when travelling.
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I did a similar clever once. I had adjusted my watch and not secured the winder correctly, thus rendering it non-waterproof. Then I took a shower.
The watch was placed on a small soft pad and then onto the radiator. After a few days it dried out perfectly and works well keeping good time. The standard price for a service including 'strip and clean' is £350; I think I saved a few bob there.
speramus in juniperus
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