WANTED: Tip of the day suggestions for the upcoming release

MonoDevelop's "Tip of the Day" dialog currently
has only one tip --
requesting you to send us tips! It would be really nice it
could be
filled up before the final 1.0 release.

The kind of tips we're looking for are concise explanations
of useful
but non-obvious feature, for example:
"The key combination ctrl+space can be used to activate
the code
completion window, if available, anywhere in the code
editor"
"Code navigation and refactoring operations can be
accessed by
right-clicking on the variables, types and members in the
code editor"
"The ASP.NET addin automatically adds member
representing controls in
aspx pages to their corresponding CodeBehind classes"
"The 'override' keyword in C# activates code completion
that can stub
out overrides for virtual and abstract members from base
classes and
implementations of members in the interfaces that the class
implements."
"The 'File>Open file in solution' command allows you
to jump quickly
to any file in the solution"
"Search pads can be 'pinned' so that their results are
not lost when
further searches are performed"

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Michael Hutchinson
<m.j.hutchinsongmail.com> wrote:
> MonoDevelop's "Tip of the Day" dialog
currently has only one tip --
>  requesting you to send us tips! It would be really
nice it could be
>  filled up before the final 1.0 release.

Does no-one but Vladimir have any suggestions for tips? I'll
be
preparing the list on Monday.. so if the tips aren't in by
then, they
won't be in 1.0!

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One of the tips could be "if you have more monodevelop
tips; you can 
send them to michael hutchinson and they might get included
here in the 
next release".



	Martin

Michael Hutchinson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Michael Hutchinson
> <m.j.hutchinsongmail.com> wrote:
>> MonoDevelop's "Tip of the Day" dialog
currently has only one tip --
>>  requesting you to send us tips! It would be really
nice it could be
>>  filled up before the final 1.0 release.
> 
> Does no-one but Vladimir have any suggestions for tips?
I'll be
> preparing the list on Monday.. so if the tips aren't in
by then, they
> won't be in 1.0!
> 
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Martin Olsson <mnemominimum.se> wrote:
> One of the tips could be "if you have more
monodevelop tips; you can
>  send them to michael hutchinson and they might get
included here in the
>  next release".

Actually, the only tip for the last several years has been
"Suggest a
tip of the day by emailing monodevelop-listlists.ximian.com" 

Sadly, it hasn't produced many (any?) results yet, but I
will probably
leave it in.

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Meant this to go to the list.  Sorry, Michael.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Michael Hutchinson
<m.j.hutchinsongmail.com> wrote:
>  Actually, the only tip for the last several years has
been "Suggest a
>  tip of the day by emailing monodevelop-listlists.ximian.com" 
>
>  Sadly, it hasn't produced many (any?) results yet, but
I will probably
>  leave it in.

Probably because everyone else, like me, turns off the
"tip of the
day" feature in every new application ASAP.

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On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Chris Howie <cdhowiegmail.com> wrote:
>  On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Michael Hutchinson
>  <m.j.hutchinsongmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Actually, the only tip for the last several
years has been "Suggest a
>  >  tip of the day by emailing monodevelop-listlists.ximian.com" 
>  >
>  >  Sadly, it hasn't produced many (any?) results
yet, but I will probably
>  >  leave it in.
>
>  Probably because everyone else, like me, turns off the
"tip of the
>  day" feature in every new application ASAP.


Which is why it's been disabled by default for years too


Nonetheless, the original #Develop's MOTD was where I found
out about
several minor but useful features (Ctrl+Space etc), so I'k
like to
have it there if our users want to look through it and maybe
enable
it.

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- You can change the targetted runtime - 1.1, 2.0,
Silverlight 1.1 -
by right-clicking on the project name in the Solution tab,
and going
to General -> Runtime Options.

- You can refresh your project file list by right-clicking
on the
project name, and selecting Display Options -> Refresh.
This can be
handy if you use the Version Control Addin and you update /
commit any
of your files externally and need to refresh their updated
status
inside MonoDevelop.

- If you need to use an external assembly in your project,
you can
just add a reference to it by right-clicking on References
and
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in your
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MonoDevelop;
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whether it is
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deployment,
or ignored yet still be included in the file list. To change
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- You can add new or open existing Solutions inside other
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andreia
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