I was at the Philly.Net user group last night. I actually had to be there because Bill Wolff was out in the holy land of Redmond, WA. We had two great presentations - the first one being how to use ASP membership in SharePoint. This is something that I and many of the people I work with have looked into from time to time but we just haven't had the time to get it done. I'll be looking through the material that was handed out before the end of the weekend.

The second presentation was not as high tech but just as useful if not more so. It was all about configuring Visual Studio. The presenter was Steve Andrews from RDA and you can get a hold of his e-book called Tame the IDE at his blog Platinum Bay. It is chock full of useful time savers on VS.

One of the things he mentioned was changing the fonts in VS. I've done this before, the only problem I've had is that I don't like courier and I also have a problem with proportional fonts when coding so many of the existing fonts are a compromise. He mentioned that there are fonts available online for VS. So I figured I'd look for some today. The first hit I had was for a font from Microsoft called Consolas. This is a fixed width font designed for VS and optimized for ClearType. Consolas is a very easy to read font (even though I have to up the size to 11 - getting old is a bitch). The install (which is cleverly named Setup) will set the default font in VS for you to Consolas.

For you Vista people, before going out and downloading it look on your system. It should already be there.