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<TIP>Suggest a tip of the day by emailing monodevelop-list@lists.ximian.com</TIP>
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<TIP>Suggest a tip of the day by emailing monodevelop-list@lists.ximian.com.</TIP>
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<TIP>A solution can be used to group together the library and application projects that make up your application, allowing them to reference each other.</TIP>
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<TIP>Maximise your editing space by setting pads to auto-hide.</TIP>
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<TIP>Search pads can be 'pinned' so that their results are not lost when further searches are performed.</TIP>
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<TIP>The 'File -> Open file in solution' command allows you to jump quickly to any file in the solution.</TIP>
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<TIP>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.</TIP>
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<TIP>The key combination Control+Space can be used to activate the code completion window, if available, anywhere in the code editor.</TIP>
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<TIP>Code navigation and refactoring operations can be accessed by right-clicking on the variables, types and members in the code editor.</TIP>
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<TIP>When building an ASP.NET project, MonoDevelop can automatically add fields representing the controls in aspx pages to their corresponding CodeBehind classes.</TIP>
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<TIP>Double-click on an editor tab to hide all pads, maximising the editing space. Double-click again to restore the previous state.</TIP>
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<TIP>If you need to use an external assembly in your project, you can just add a reference to it by right-clicking on the References folder in the Solution Pad and selecting it from the list of assemblies registered in your system, a list of projects in the current Solution, or any assembly that exists on your filesystem</TIP>
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<TIP>Add a translation project to your solution to translate it using Gettext.</TIP>
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<TIP>You can control how a file is treated in your project, whether it is included in the build, embedded as a resource, included in deployment, or ignored yet still included in the file list. To change these options for each file, open the Properties Pad by going to 'View -> Properties', and select the file you want from your project file list. You can then select how the file is treated by changing the 'Build -> Build Action' option the the Properties tab.</TIP>
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<TIP>Designing a form with GTK# involves packing widgets into nested containers. Widget sizes and positions are calculated automatically, depending on the size of the form and the widget.</TIP>
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<TIP>Simple code templates can be activated by entering the template's code, such as 'scwl', and pressing the Tab key. Templates may be added and edited in the Editor Preferences.</TIP>
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<TIP>You can change the targeted runtime -- 1.1, 2.0, Silverlight 1.1 -- by right-clicking on the project name in the Solution tab, selecting 'Project Options', and going to 'General -> Runtime Options'.</TIP>
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<TIP>You can refresh your project file list by right-clicking on the project name, and selecting 'Display Options -> Refresh'. This can be particularly useful if you use the Version Control Addin and you update or commit files externally and need to refresh their updated status inside MonoDevelop.</TIP>
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<TIP>If your project is under version control, the Status/Commit view can be used to enter messages for each file. These will be used to create a commit message and a ChangeLog entry that you can editr before committing.</TIP>
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<TIP>Editing the references for an ASP.NET project will automatically update the web.config file.</TIP>
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<TIP>If you have the sshfs FUSE filesystem installed, the Web Deploy dialog can be used to deploy your ASP.NET project to a remote server over SSH.</TIP>
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<TIP>The Properties Pad provides contextual properties for many things. As well as editing widgets in the GUI designer, it can be used to set the deploy/build mode of files in the Solution Pad, the resource ID of resources, and whether a file is to be built or deployed.</TIP>
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<TIP>MonoDevelop can open and save most Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 solution and project files directly, but not all MonoDevelop or Visual Studio features are fully supported.</TIP>
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<TIP>The command-line program 'mdtool' can be used to build MD solutions and generate Makefiles, among other things.</TIP>
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<TIP>Makefile integration can be used to synchronise file lists and references to variables in Makefiles, and can invoke Makefile targets to perform builds.</TIP>
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<TIP>Additional add-ins may be available from MonoDevelop's online add-in repositories, providing new or updated functionality. To install them, go to 'Tools -> Add-in Manager', and click 'Install Add-ins'.</TIP>
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<TIP>Add XML documentation comments, which start with '///', and they will show up in tool tips and code completion.</TIP>
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<TIP>When you add an event handler in the GTK# GUI designer using the 'Signals' tab in the Properties Pad, MonoDevelop will add a stub for the method.</TIP>
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<TIP>In the C# compiler options, defines should be separated by commas e.g. VERBOSE,MONO,ETC.</TIP>
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<TIP>If you have '//TODO:' and other task comments in your code, they will show up in the task list. You can customize it with your own like '//THINK:' or '//RESEARCH:'.</TIP>
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<TIP>In Gtk#, create widgets that inherit Gtk.Bin and they will show up in the designer's toolbox for easy reuse.</TIP>
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<TIP>The Subversion integration makes source control very easy. If not convinced, investigate the ChangeLog integration.</TIP>
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<TIP>If you get any 'Type not found' compilation errors, you may be missing a reference to a common assembly such as System or System.Xml. Edit your project's referenced assemblies by right-clicking on the 'References' folder in the Solution Pad and selecting 'Edit references'.</TIP>
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<TIP>For a faster startup, disable unneeded add-ins using the Addin Manager.</TIP>
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<TIP>Add a packaging project to your solution to package the output of other projects for distribution.</TIP>
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<TIP>When you edit the references of an ASP.NET project, MonoDevelop will edit the web.config file accordingly.</TIP>
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<TIP>In the source editor, right-clicking on a field will allow you to encapsulate it automatically as a property.</TIP>
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<TIP>The 'Rename' context menu command for code identifiers will automatically find and correct all references.</TIP>
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<TIP>When C# Smart Indentation is enabled, the Tab key re-indents the current line.</TIP>
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<TIP>When writing applications that may be used on other platforms such as Windows, be aware of differences in the path separators and casing of filenames. Detailed guidelines for cross-platform development are available at http://www.mono-project.com/Guidelines:Application_Portability.</TIP>
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