The integration of SQL Servers in Visual Studio is really great. I use VS to create my SQL tables and simple administration stuff – it´s not often that I start SQL Management Studio. But one thing is really annoying: You can´t rename SQL Tables in VS! But there is a little trick to do that.
Many programmers know that there is very handy tool inside of Visual Studio to manage ToDos, "Hacks" and so on. I discovered this cool, secret (Visual Studio has a lot of such unknown gimmicks) feature some weeks ago:
Taskmanagement
You can manage your tasks in several applications: Outlook, "Work Items" in combination with TFS or other non-Microsoft product.
In small or private projects I haven´t a TFS and don´t want to use Outlook – one important point is the connection between the ToDo/Hack/what ever and the code line/code file.
Just activate "View -> Task List" in Visual Studio and you get a small taskmanager.
You can view your current ToDos (+ code line where the ToDo is located) :
If you klick on one item you go directly to this code file:
Just add "ToDo: …" to create a new task.
Custom Tokens
You can easly add your own "Tokens" in the option dialog of Visual Studio:
If you work in big projects or with a team you should only use the "Taskmanager" in Visual Studio for very small "ToDos" or "Hacks" – bigger ToDos should be placed inside other systems like TFS as "Work Items".
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