If at this point, you press “Cancel”, you’ll be prompted with a pop up saying:

Sure, no problem.

The thing is that once this is done, anytime you’ll try to step into a function coming from the same cpp file you just canceled the look up, you’ll be prompted with the message without being able to select the file.

This is really easy to fix actually.  This setting is stored in the Solution, under the Debug Source Files panel:

Simply removing the file from the “Do not look for these source files” will re enable the file selection dialog.

He used “>” followed by “of” in the search tab, and as he typed, the drop down menu was populated by files matching his filter… hum!  I didn’t know Visual Studio had this built in, I thought you had to use Workspace Whiz or Visual Assist!

Here’s an example:

(screenshot taken using the BWAPI solution)

The prefix > tells Visual Studio to interpret the rest as a command.  The actual Command Window is accessible using Ctrl-Alt-A (default binding) for those who don’t want to use the mouse  to select the “Quick Find” text box.  You can either use an Alias (such as of for Open File) or the actual command (such as File.Open).

Microsoft lists some commands and aliases available here but using >Alias will list all the set aliases.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c3a0kd3x.aspx

You can create aliases and remove aliases using the alias command:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xasxzd71.aspx

Given that most people don’t use them at all, it is pretty standard across all PCs, so if you have to work on other people’s PCs, you should be able to use aliases instead of relying on an installed plug in!

That’s why I was appealed by this new competition:

http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition

With my interest for StarCraft and my AI background, I wanted to participate… but knowing how much spare time I have, I decided against it   However, I started committing code for the Brood War API (http://code.google.com/p/bwapi/) which is used for the competition and I’m having quite some fun.  Taking small issues and fixing them, I can spend as little time as I want and I don’t have to commit to release an AI in a few months!

If you’re in the Montreal area and would like some help with your bot, feel free to ask, I’d be glad to participate, as long as I don’t have too much to do, cause I don’t have much time to spend on such project!  I have quite a few ideas of neat things to implement, but on my own I simply won’t have time to achieve awesome results.

For those who’d be interested in checking it out:

RockScroll

Also, the only other plugin I use is Visual Assist X, you can get it here (not free though, but totally worth it!):

Visual Assist X

For a while I searched the net for good Gadgets that could display what I wanted, but they all either had a bad UI or had too much information in them.

Tonight, I decided to take a look at what a “Gadget” is… actually, it’s a simple HMTL app, with CSS and JS files.  It turned out that I could easily set the values for two bars / graphs I wasn’t using (my laptop only has 2 cores) and I hooked them to my battery life and signal strength.  5 minutes later, I had the Gadget I always wanted!

Tadam!

Thanks to the guys at Add Gadget!

PS.: I won’t be releasing the source code as the original work is copyrighted, but I’ll try to see with them if it could be possible to add the options to the original gadget!

Now, it’s time to spend some time designing an entry for the Arduino Contest at Instructables!

Visit Instructables for more info!

I will most likely post the document and sample code I’ll be writing for the Campus in a new section.  The presentation is how graphs can be used for navigation and planification purposes, using the same algorithms, with different node structures.  Chances are the document will be in French, but I’ll try to translate it if people seem interested!