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Show Whitespace Characters toolbar in Eclipse

To show the toolbar associated with white space character, from main menu do  Windows | Customize Perspective... . Then select/enable  Tool Bar Visibility |  Editor Presentation |  Show Whitespace Characters . Customize Perspective Note that you may have to make Editor Presentation  available through Commands Groups Availability like below. Command Groups Availability

Eclipse TFS support

To install TFS support within Eclipse do: Open Eclipse Do  Help | Install New Software... . In Install software dialog, select Add... . Give it a name like "Eclipse TFS Plugin". In location, type  http://dl.microsoft.com/eclipse/tfs  then hit on OK button. Select  Team Foundation Server Plug-in for Eclipse , see below. Select Next  to proceed with the installation.  In Installation Details, select Next again. In  Review Licenses , select I accept the terms of the license agreements . Then hit on Finish . Select Yes on You will need to restart Eclipse SDK for the changes to take effect. Would you like to restart now? dialog. Oh the integration is awesome, head to  Installing the Team Foundation Server Plug-in for Eclipse for more details. Tested with Eclipse 4.2 on Windows 8 using JRE 7 update 10.

Show whitespace characters in Eclipse editor

From main Eclipse menu do, Windows | Preferences . Then  General | Editors | Text Editors | enable Show whitespace characters (configure visibility) . Show whitespace characters

Cannot move tool bar icons in Eclipse 4.2 Juno

Searching for tool bar actions in Juno shows that user should be able to unlock tool bar for customization. Unfortunately this function is not working, see bug 340695 . If you really wanted to move the icons there is a workaround. Change the theme to Windows 7 and restart. You should now be able to move items around. References: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11301795/how-to-unlock-toolbars-in-eclipse-4-2-juno