Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tips

Tip 252: You Can Make the Statement Completion Window Transparent

Sara Aside

Wow! Hey, thank you for reading all the way to the end! About once or twice a year, whenever I write long conference trip reports or long summary e-mail messages at work, I usually have a line at the bottom saying, "To show my appreciation to you for reading this far, I’ll buy you a latte. E-mail me to receive your coupon." It’s fun to see people’s reactions in their replies. In lieu of espresso, my way of saying thanks is to provide you with one last tip about Visual Studio 2008.

Hold down the Ctrl key to make the statement completion window transparent. This transparency is especially useful when the statement completion window is blocking text or other code that you ...