How to turn a rant into a productivity power tool

“ Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.” – Aristotle

A rant can be a great comedy (or drama) technique. It was pioneered – or at least first documented — (I think) by Lenny Bruce and subsequently practiced by other (usually) angry (often) young (almost always) men including Sam Kinison, Chris Rock, Dennis Miller, George Carlin, Lewis Black and Bill Hicks (who even has an album called “Rant in E Minor”).

Roseanne Barr and Sandra Bernhard have done some pretty great ranting, but it’s generally a harder form for women to pull off because, let’s face it, our culture by and large still likes its women nice and easy, not rough and angry.

I produced a show called Un-Cabaret that featured some impressive comedy rants by brilliant boys like Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dana Gould, Taylor Negron, Andy Kindler and others. Some great female ranters also came into their own there, including Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin and Beth Lapides.

A rant is a speech or text that is typically an attack on an idea, a person or an institution, and very often lacks proven claims. Lots of writers do it really well in print too: Burroughs, Hunter Thompson, Thomas Paine, etc. (again, predominantly angry men, although not always so young), but a rant is at its most viscerally effective when delivered personally and out loud because it’s harder for the audience to stop listening than for a reader to stop reading.

A rant is distinct from a ‘story’ (a narrative with beginning, middle and, hopefully, an end), a ‘skit’ (a little play or fragment that includes characters) or a ‘bit’ (a chunk of comedy that sticks on one topic but is usually more rationally structured and lacks the lacks the passion and sustained momentum of a rant). In some cases, rants are based on facts and concrete information, but the key ideas expressed are what the individual personally feels.

You can use a rant onstage to great effect in standup, solo shows or spoken word performances, in a screenplay, TV script or stage play (just ask David Mamet, patron saint of stage and screenplay ranters).

7 Elements of a Good Comedy Rant

1. A clear topic – If you aren’t clear what you’re talking about and you don’t define it clearly for the audience, don’t bother trying to get on a rant. Unless, like Rosanne Rossanadanna, your topic is based on mis-understanding. A big, important topic works best. I’ve heard wannabe ranters hurl their energy into topics like ‘pet clothes’ and peter out quickly. What’s the bigger topic? What are you really angry about?

2. Passion – I’ve seen a lot of comedians aim too low and throw passion at mis-guided or made-up topics like ‘clothes for pets’. Is that really what you’re so angry about? My advice: use your passion for the thing you’re actually worked up about.

3. Attitude – Try to go beyond ‘oh great’ or ‘really?’ to find the real attitude that underlies the emotion. A rant isn’t the place to mitigate your attitude. In fact, it’s the place to ‘maxigate’ it.

4. Point of View – Don’t lose sight of yourself and your particular situation. Why are you so worked up that you have to take this rant to the stage (or page, or internet)?

5. Rhythm – A rant is a great place to find your own personal rhythm because the passion and momentum help you transcend your ‘logical’ thinking, natural inhibitions and rational writing voice. If it rhymes too much, it’s a poem, but a few well-chosen couplets can be a beautiful thing. A good rant almost always uses rhythmic repetition of a word or phrase .

6. Momentum – A rant is a great place to practice fast-talking. Audiences love a rant because they know what ride they’re on and their only job is to try to keep up with you. Your job, of course, is to try to keep up with yourself and not get derailed by your own momentum. A good rant is like a visceral mental high-wire act on speed.

7. Dynamics – A lot of people get loud fast and stay loud through their whole rant. A great rant is like a roller coaster with highs and lows, sections where you speed up and slow down, get louder and softer. Then, just when we think it’s over… zoom, you’re off again. Hopefully with a new angle or twist to keep us interested.

Rants are a great way to milk more laughs from a word, phrase or topic. Also, remember that great onstage rants are often of the moment, so don’t be surprised if you try to re-create it and find yourself lacking the emotional juice that fueled you the first time. That’s why you recorded it the first time.

“I guard my time fiercely and without apology,” says Gary Keller, author of The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Bard Press, 2013).

He uses a technique called time blocking,in which he dedicates several hours to a single task, to help strengthen focus and eliminate distraction. The co-founder and chairman of Austin, Texas-based Keller Williams Realty blocks out the first four hours of every day and says time blocking helped him turn a local office into the largest real estate franchise in the United States.

“It may sound extreme, but it’s honestly one of the simplest and most effective tactics for anyone to live by.”

Keller shares these four time-blocking tips that entrepreneurs can use to get more done:

1. Identify your top priority. Keller looks at his goals for the year and asks himself, “What’s the one thing which, when tackled, will make everything else I have to do easier or unnecessary?” He then designs the first four hours of his workdays around doing that one thing.

For example, when Keller was working on his book, he blocked the first four hours of every day and used the time to do nothing but write. Early in his real estate career, his top priority was to increase sales. He used his four-hour time block to do nothing but make calls and generate leads for buyers and sellers.

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“My motto is: Until my number one priority is done each day, all else is a distraction,” he says, adding that four hours is crucial. “If you want to do something at the highest level, it’s got to be four hours a day. Time on the task over time – that’s how you become a master at what matters most.”

2. Work on event time. Keller says most people work on “clock” time, living their life by the clock and by someone else’s schedule. They leave work at 5 p.m. because that’s when the workday is over. He works on what he calls “event” time, scheduling the days tasks around the events or goals he wants to accomplish. Everything else — such as meetings, calls and emails — wait until he reaches a finishing point. He leaves work when he has accomplished that day’s most important priority.

“My most important work comes first and it’s done when it’s done,” he says. “The key to making this work and still getting home in time to have a full and richly rewarding personal life is to block time as early in the day as possible.”

3. Block in planning time. In addition to working on his one thing, Keller blocks in time to reflect on where he is and where he wants to be.

“It’s the pause before I hit the start button again,” he says. “I set aside a day each year for annual planning, an hour each month for monthly planning and an hour each week for weekly planning.”

4. Block time off. Keller says time off is crucial, and at the beginning of the year he blocks out long weekends and long vacations. He says time blocking has been the key to living the kind of life he wants.

“If we know where we’re going and what we want to accomplish, this gives us amazing clarity on our priority,” he says.

Related: How to Train Your Brain to Multitask Effectively

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Stephanie Vozza is a freelance writer who has written about business, real estate and lifestyle for more than 20 years.

Hi all! My family and I have been rocking a TCL TV for a few years and we are interested in getting a Samsung TV because of their beautiful displays.

We’re pretty big into the apple eco system and naturally have Apple TV’s. With our TCL we were able to disable the Roku OS which resulted in just having a “dumb tv” that when turned on boots into the Apple TV.

I’ve been trying to research without resolve if the Samsung TVs support this. I would like to completely bypass the Samsung Tizen OS to include networking without taking a performance hit.

Before we disabled the Roku OS on our TCL, we opted to just prevent the TV from getting a IP. That caused it to severely lag. Thankfully we were able to just disable Roku altogether.

I looked forward to anyones guidance!

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So, you have an apple TV device. On a Samsung smart TV, you would just plug it in and set the input to the apple TV device. Idk how roku tvs work as I’ve never had one, but my Samsung TV just immediately opens whatever input it was on the last time the TV was on. I’ve never owned an apple TV device, but im sure it would work exactly the same way.

Unless you are trying to change the os to an apple tv os or something? Which most likely wouldn’t work since the Samsung TV internals (motherboard, processor, etc.) Aren’t designed to communicate with anything but the stock os. So, you’d have to write your own code to be able to switch the TV itself to a different os. I don’t think that’s what you’re trying to do, though lol

Also, we don’t have internet at all at my house. The TV does not lag and has not slowed down at all vs when it was connected to the internet at my old house.

Are you constantly adding new ones or do you stick with the tried and true?

Better yet, how do you pick your productivity tools in the first place?

What Productivity Tools Are You Using?

One of the most often asked questions I receive is:

Which productivity tools should I use?

Sometimes people are asking for a particular tool recommendation. (The Best Todo List…)

Other times, they are asking for the best way to set up their productivity system as a whole.

Today, I want to provide a few simple guidelines to help you select the best productivity tools to get more done.

Here are 10 Simple Rules for Choosing Your Productivity Tools:

1. Choose Tools You’ll Use – The most important rule in choosing your productivity tools is, “Choose tools you’ll use.” In other words, pick tools that you like and will continue to use. If you are a paper-person, then don’t pick the latest smartphone, and vice versa. You have to like your solutions or they will end up unused in a drawer somewhere.
2. Define Your System – Make sure you are deliberate in choosing your tools. Name what is “IN” and what is “OUTSIDE” of your toolkit. This will prevent you from picking up that random pad of paper or extra calendar.
3. Simplest Is Best – The simplest solution is always the best. Bloated, complex productivity tools only serve to slow you down. (i.e. How many steps does your todo app require to capture a task?) Additionally, complex solutions require more maintenance to be sustainable day-to-day.
4. Your Tools Must Be With You – It is easier than ever to carry your tools and information with you. Make sure that the productivity tools you select are with you at all times. You can’t record appointments if that desk calendar is back in the office. You can’t look at your todo list if it is written on the Post-It at home.
5. Gadgets Won’t Save You – Don’t assume that the latest shiny gadget is going to suddenly change your productivity. Gadgets get work done, but they only serve to amplify the habits you already have. (See #1 and 3.)
6. Cost Doesn’t Make Them More Effective – The cost of your productivity tools doesn’t determine their effectiveness. Some people are more effective with a $1 pack of notecards than with an $800 smartphone.
7. Stick With Your Tools – When you find tools that work, stick with them. Those who constantly hop to the latest new tool, usually end up wasting more time in the switch than they end up saving.
8. The Right Tool for the Job – Always choose productivity tools that are suited to the task at hand. Don’t write appointments in your notebook when they should go directly on your calendar.
9. Have a Complete Set – Ensure that your toolkit is complete. Do you have a tool for each type of task that you might encounter? (Hint: The tool most often missing from individual’s toolsets is a single place to keep notes.)
10. The Power of 1 – The corollary of Rule #9 is that you only need one of each type of tool for a particular task. Follow the Power of 1, and avoid multiple calendars, todo lists, and notebooks. This will avoid searching several locations when you need to find a piece of information.

Choose Your productivity Tools

Choosing your productivity tools is an important task in itself.

Your productivity toolkit is the foundation that helps you get your work done.

Make sure you follow these 10 rules to have the most effective set of solutions at your fingertips.

And of course, always choose tools you’ll use.

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I use Google calendar in conjunction with my work calendar (outlook) which then syncs with my android phone calendar. I have to ‘invite’ myself from my work calendar as the work system won’t allow me to automatically sync with external calendars and it’s a bit of a pain but works better than anything else for me at the moment. Rather than focusing too much on ‘one tool’ when it comes to my calendars I try to focus on just making sure I enter the calendar booking just the one time across the three tools.

In terms of taking notes etc I have a paper ‘scratch pad’ near my pc/laptop which can be an A4 pad or a large post-it note, whichever’s nearest. For going to meetings I usually take a tiny A6 paper notepad (it always gets a laugh from those who come with their big leather bound hardback A4 notebooks) and another thing I use an old Olympus digital voice recorder (you can get them for £7 or less off ebay now). I do a ‘voice dump’ once a week from that. Very good for catching random ideas and the odd rant! I sometimes use it for recording ‘corridor jobs’ when people stop you in the middle of nowhere and ask you to do something for them and there’s no pen and paper around.

My really most favouritist tools though are my diary/notebooks. I have 13 of these set up at the moment – plain unlined A5 sized notebooks that cost £2 from Asda and I do spider diagrams in these and then colour them in with coloured pencils. Very good for reflective thinking and idea generation. One I use most is the ‘reading diary’ – I do in depth reading of non-fiction books; convert their main points into spider/mind maps and then squeeze the value out of those notes.

Every now and again I’ll test out any new tools/methods and add something permanent to my ‘kit’. I follow the GTD methodology but add bits on here and there.

Craig, thanks for this post; I guess the KISS principle still holds true (keep it simple, etc.)- while I have a workflow that integrates a lot of different tools, it works for me and is flexible enough to get things done.

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When clicking on “Add Reference” with Power Productivity Tool’s “Searchable Add Reference” dialog enabled causes VS2010 to crash under certain circumstances

Running Win7 Pro/x64 w/all current updates; VS2010 Pro w/current version of Productivity Power Tools
(10.0.20626.18) amongst other extensions.

I recently rebuilt my system. Before rebuilding I just had an admin level account and did everything
out of this account as dangerous as this is. This time I decided to have multiple accounts setup.
I have two accounts as a member of Administrators & Users (SUAdmin & PMBAdmin), one with just membership
in Users (PMBottas). I now do most things out of the User account, as much as it is a pain to keep
getting the dialog to provide an admin account credentials.

Problem was first noticed while in the non-admin account and working on a old app the was created back
before I rebuilt the system. Went to add a ref and VS crash.

Created a new empty console app – same problem.

Switched to PMBAdmin, created a new console app in this user’s Projects folder and didn’t get the crash.

Switched back to PMBottas account and ran VS as an admin (using PMBAdmin creds- which give me PMBAdmin’s
Projects folder even though I am logged into PMBottas – don’t understand this behavior but that’s
a different question) opened the console app in PMBAdmin project folder,tried to add a ref and this time it did NOT crash.

Switch to SUAdmin account, created a new console app and this one CRASHES VS2010. huh?
Why does it work in one admin level account and not the other?

hmmm maybe it’s where I’m creating the app.

As PMBAdmin, created a folder ‘\VSCommon’ on the Data drive; in Properties->Security for the folder,
added Users & Everyone, gave both groups ‘Full Control’. This way I can be working with the same app
no matter who I am logged in as.

As PMBAdmin, created a new console app in the VSCommon folder. tried to add a ref, no crash

From here on, as I switch accounts and then run VS as that user and then as Admin, all testing will
be with the console app in the VSCommon folder

LoggedInAs PMBottas, crash
LoggedInAs PMBottas, run as admin under PMBAdmin, no crash.
LoggedInAs SUAdmin, crash (huh? -really don’t get this one)
LoggedInAs SUAdmin, as admin (no creds required being a member of Administrators) No Crash.

Made PMBottas a member of Administrators.
LoggedInAs PMBottas, crash (again, why does it work under one Admin level account (PMBAdmin) but no other)
LoggedInAs PMBottas, run as admin (now no creds required being a member of Administrators) NO CRASH.

created new user account TestUser.
LoggedInAs TestUser, crash,
LoggedInAs TestUser, as admin under PMBAdmin, no crash.
LoggedInAs TestUser, as admin under SUAdmin no crash.
LoggedInAs TestUser, as admin under PMBottas no crash.

The specific error I get is taken from VS’s “VS has encounter a problem and needs to close” dialog
From the ‘View Problem signature’ window extension:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: devenv.exe
Problem Signature 02: 10.0.40219.1
Problem Signature 03: 4d5f2a73
Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4ee9af8e
Problem Signature 07: 22d
Problem Signature 08: 10
Problem Signature 09: System.Security.Security
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

If I then select “Debug the application” and “start an new instance of VS” I can get this for the actual exception info:
EXCEPTION INFO

System.Security.SecurityException was unhandled
Message=Requested registry access is not allowed.
Source=mscorlib
StackTrace:
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource)
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenSubKey(String name, Boolean writable)
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenSubKey(String name)
at Microsoft.VSProjectPlus.TypeLibraryReferenceProvider.PopulateTypeLibraries(Object data)
at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()
at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()
InnerException:

If in VS I go to Tools->Options->Power Productivity Tools->All Extensions and turn off the
‘Searchable Reference Dialog’ I don’t crash no matter who I am logged in under nor if I run as admin.

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

Any insight as to what is going on here (especially as to why it run directly (ie w/o ‘Run as Admin’) under PMBAdmin and not any other Administrators account) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance – Paul

Edit_1: Just had a thought. I’m fairly sure I installed VS while logged into as PMBAdmin

We love our iPhones. We surf the web on it, read entire books, play games, take pictures, watch videos, text our friends, and occasionally we even use it to make a call.

And we download apps. Lots of apps. And we get notifications. Lots of them. And the battery dies. Here are a few tips to make your Iphone less invasive and more productive.

1. Declutter

Our phones act as a closet to dump free and low-cost apps, deals of the day, and apps of the week. They go on for screen after screen, hogging memory and slowing down the device. Schedule a dumpster day every month and get rid of apps you don’t need or use, even the ones you paid for. Remember that the apps you download exist on your computer and in the cloud so you can reinstall an app without paying for it again.

2. Use folders to group apps

For the remaining 178 apps that you just can’t do without, group into folders. Drag an app into a related app and a group folder is created — like News, Games, Docs, and Social Media. Each folder can contain up to 12 apps. Now you’ve gone from over 10 screens to just one. Use the second screen for dedicated icons of frequently used apps.

3. Let Siri remind you

The iPhone now comes with its own native To-Do App called Reminders. It lets you organize everything you have to do by deadline, priority, location, or custom-made lists. But lots of cool apps do the same. Instead, use Siri to set reminders. Just say “Remind me Friday at 4PM to research vacation options”, and consider it done. If you add a location, “Remind me Friday when I get into the office“, you’ll get an alert as soon as you arrive at work.

4. Rev up security

With password breaches dominating the news headlines, we can never be too cautious about security. With a four-digit PIN, you can unlock the iPhone, but Apple allows for a longer passcode. Go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock. Set Simple Passcode to Off. Tap on Turn Passcode On and enter your longer numeric or alphanumeric code.

5. Trim notifications

Interruptions affect productivity and our phones are interruption devices. Just about every app you download asks for push notification permission. Why would you ever need an urgent notification from MyFitnessPal or Flixter? You don’t. I have five email addresses pouring into my iPhone and one of my biggest productivity boosts came from turning off all email notifications. Go go Settings > Notifications and tweak your notifications.

6. Power down when connecting IRL

That’s “In Real Life” for the acronym challenged. A pet peeve of mine is the incessant checking of email, Facebook, Twitter and other applications when meeting up with friends and colleagues In Real Life. Get to your destination, check-in on Foursquare and turn the phone off. Don’t put it on vibrate. See that glazed look halfway through a conversation? That’s the phone silently buzzing in his pocket diverting his attention. Turn it off. Rant over.

The iPhone is a very useful tool, a computer in our pocket that needs to be fine tuned constantly to maximize its productivity. Other tips to share?

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• Lee-Ann

Many of our McKinsey alum customers are accustomed to using Box Tables, aka Marvin Tables. Box tables are tables made up of a series of text boxes rather than standard PowerPoint Tables. We were asked to include shortcuts for creating box tables. From the feedback we’ve been getting, many of our other customers also love using box tables given the extra flexibility in formatting that’s possible.

PPT Productivity has a Deconstruct Tables into Text Boxes feature, which lets you convert a PowerPoint table into text boxes. There’s also a Create Table from Text Boxes feature which lets you convert a text box table into a standard PowerPoint table.

In addition, there is a Box Table template gallery in the PPT Productivity Slide Library. The Box Table template gallery contains a number of common Table layouts created using text boxes, rather than the standard PowerPoint table format. PPT Productivity users on the Free trial or a purchased Power tools license already have access to download galleries for easy reuse, including the Box table template gallery.

PPT Productivity Box Table Template Gallery

Using the Box Table template gallery is easy! Find the layout you need by either scrolling through the more than 60 Box Table designs, by using Slide Library search or via Keyboard Shortcuts. Simply click the image of the box table template required. The selected Box Table template will be pasted onto your slide instantly. Your presentation template’s colors will be applied automatically when the table is pasted into your presentation (make sure ‘apply source formatting’ at the bottom of the Shape Library panel is unchecked).

The new Box Table template gallery is available in both 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 slide size layouts. It’s available for all PPT Productivity Power Tools users including those using the free 30 day trial.

To download the Box Tables gallery, simply click the ‘Select Galleries’ button at the top of the Slide Library toolbar. This will launch the ‘Filter Galleries’ dialogue box. Click the ‘Download New Galleries’ button. There you will see the list of available PPT Productivity shape galleries to download. Check the box next to ‘Box Tables – Widescreen’ (for 16:9 slide size) or ‘Box Tables’ (for 4:3 slide size) and hit ok. The new Box Table gallery will download in seconds and be available in your Slide Library for immediate use.

Tip – if you only ever work with one slide width, simply deselect the other format using the Select Galleries. button. This will remove non preferred sizes from display in your Slide Library (they will be hidden not deleted, so you can add them back if ever needed).

Don’t forget – you can also save your own preferred box table layouts or any other slide or shape for easy access via the Slide Library. Learn more about downloading slides and shapes to your Slide Library

More relevant PPT Productivity features for McKinsey Alumni

If you’re a McKinsey alumni, we think you’ll also love our McKinsey aligned shortcut keys , status stamps and sticky notes.

Let us know what’s on your PowerPoint ‘wish list’ ! If you’re enjoying the time saving Box table gallery and our 100+ other features, let your colleagues and friends know about PPT Productivity!

Are you a smart visual studio 2010 developer? If you want to be then this post is for you. This post is for Visual Studio 2010 users to get productive while working. Whatever you missed to have in your VS release, is here. While writing the code your another task is to manage the things around and this tool will help you providing everything on the table. Best features ever seen with good UI and at very small cost of performance overhead if you have minimal requirement of hardware configuration for VS2010.

Very first Go and Download the VS2010 Productivity Power Tool from here.

Installation is as smooth as like another plugin. After Installing you may want to visit features that I liked most. There’s lots of things you would see are available as options to quick clicks. but below are mine favorites and I use them massively.

1. Improved Add reference prompt box with search

This is one of the feature I’ve ever waited cause manually going through and finding the references of assembly..ohh that sucks!! But now you can just type in search box and everything that matches get filtered and you can select it plus box will be there you can add more if you want and then just close the box when you’re done. and its loading fast.

2. Quick Access
Quick Access is a new tool window that allows users to search for and execute common tasks within the Visual Studio IDE. Not sure where a particular menu command is located? Want a quick way to create a new Silverlight project? By using Quick Access, you can efficiently find and execute common VS operations without taking your hands off the keyboard. Quick Access allows users to:

• Execute Main Menu and Context Menu commands
• Open the New Project Dialog with a specific Project Template selected
• Show a tool window
• Jump to a Visual Studio Options page
• Navigate to an open document in your Tab Well
• Create and execute a series of actions (task)

To use, press Ctrl+3 to launch Quick Access, type in your search term (e.g., “debug”), and press Enter on the desired result. If your search term returns too many results, continue pressing Ctrl+3 to cycle through each category of results.

3. Auto Brace Completion
Automatic Brace Completion improves the productivity of writing code by automatically inserting the closing code construct when the opening construct is typed for VB & C#. More specifically, this extension:

• Supports the following constructs: (), , [], , “”, and ‘’.
• Allows you to press to navigate past the next enclosing brace
• Allows you to automatically complete a statement in C# by inserting the closing semi-colon and moving you to the next line with SHIFT + ENTER

The extensions from the previous Productivity Power Tools have been included and improved.

4. HTML Copy

If you are a blogger then you’ll love it cause you may want to copy the code as HTML when you add it to your post. I’m telling you it’s a worth utility. you’ll no longer have to go fix up the formatting of your code when you paste it into a TFS bug form or any other HTML based control. It is possible to modify the html format which gets copied to the clipboard and with the release you now have the ability to customize that to suite your needs. You can go to Tools | Options | Productivity Power Tools | HTML Copy or Simply just press CTRL + 3 and type “HTML COPY”

5. Triple Click
It’s never been easier to select a line of code from the mouse by simple triple-clicking anywhere on the line.

6. Move Line Up/Down Commands
This is pretty cool. This extension maps the Alt+Up Arrow & Alt+Down Arrow keys such that they will move the current line of code or the selected lines up and down through the editor.

7. Enhanced Tool Tip

Navigate directly to the Definitions and see just by expanding the nodes what’s inside.

8. Turn Off the Feature you don’t like or want to use

Ahh.. and atlast there is lots of extensions in there, few must be helpful for you but not all so whatever feature you feels annoying you just go to Tools | Options | Productivity Power Tools and find the extension on the right (remember to scroll!). It requires a restart of Visual Studio to change effect.

The above list is something I liked most out of this Productivity Power Tools. I hope you will find more useful ways to utilize them all.

I hope you like this post. Also have a look at another post on New productive Tool from Visual Studio Toolbox The PowerCommands Tool.

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