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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Notepad++ and xml

 Notepad++ is a veritable well of usefulness. Everyday I am finding new nice features.
 Today, it's ability to collapse all nodes in xml document via keyboard shortcut.

 To collapse all nodes:
 ALT-0
 To expand all nodes:
 ALT-SHIFT-0
 To expand certain level only:
 ALT-SHIFT-2 (for level 2)
 To collapse on certain level only:
 ALT-1

 Of course, you do need to install XML plugin to manipulate XML documents, then you can format it and validate and do all kinds of useful things with it.



Thursday, March 3, 2016

Visual Studio search broken after BizTalk installation

 I am not sure who exactly broke my Visual Studio 2013,  either BizTalk ESB Toolkit or PowerTools for TFS broke Visual Studio search.
 Find in Files for a word would return summary only, without actual list of files to go and see - pretty useless.

 Solution is to fix default value for registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\
Wow6432Node\
CLSID\
{73B7DC00-F498-4ABD-AB79-D07AFD52F395}\
InProcServer32

to:
  
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv\TextMgrP.dll

It was blank, I've entered the value and it worked without even restarting VS.