My favorite way to quickly format a given chunk of XML is to use Notepad++ and the XML Tools plugin. You can get Notepad++ here. And the XML Tools plugin is here (you’ll have to wait a few seconds before the download starts).
(the following instructions are based on Notepad++ v5.9.4 and my differ in later versions)
1) Choose your language:
I don’t get it. We’ve had big monitors for the better part of 10 years now and resolutions have steadily increased over time. People, we’re not all running 640 x 480 anymore! I just bought a Logitech Harmony 700 universal remote. I love the remote. Super comfortable, great button layout but their software really isn’t that intuitive to use. And whoever designed the interface really fell short.
Here’s the screen to customize the buttons on the remote:
You can see there’s a scrollbar on the right hand side to show more buttons when you scroll down. The dialog above doesn’t take up even half my laptop screen so the first thing I did was expand the dialog to fill the height of the screen. What do you think happened? Did the controls resize properly? Oh no…
One of the things I really love to use when debugging in VS2008 is the ability to have breakpoints write messages to the Output window. This doesn’t sound like much but there are several advantages to this. You can have messages printed to the Output window without having to re-compile or add any code. And you can also have execution continue without stopping on the breakpoint.
So let’s start with the following code (actual text is at the end of this post):