Here is an incomplete stack of tricks to help you work with Chromium in Visual Studio.
Studio very slow, and certain operations like IntelliSense can be somewhat unusable. Some tips for speeding it up:
you're not interested in, e.g. "gn gen --ide=vs --filters=//components/omnibox/\* --sln=omnibox out/Debug" will only create projects for components/omnibox/ and its dependencies. However, be aware that Code Search (see below) will not work on code that's been filtered out!
[VsFunnel](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items). This extension allows you to select which projects in a solution will be loaded at solution load time, and which will remain in the "unloaded" state. Unloaded projects are not indexed by VS, so this extension can drastically speed up VS responsiveness. The unloaded projects will remain searchable via VsChromium (see below).
parsing files etc; it'll become more responsive after that.
fast code search, among other useful features. Code from unloaded solutions (via VsFunnel, see above) is still searchable!
You can set up column guidelines at 80 columns or wherever you would like by installing this Visual Studio extension and using the context menu options.
cpplint.py integration makes it easy to check that a source file conforms to the style guide. To do this, just go to Tools > External Tools > Add. Specify:
To create a keyboard shortcut:
Or, make the title something like c&pplint.py, and invoke it with Alt+t,p.
The style guide requires no tabs and 2 char indentation. To set this, go to Tools > Options. On the Text Editor/All languages/Tabs page, set
See http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/how-to-set-up-visual-studio-debugger-visualizers.