Unlock the secrets of Visual Studio—learning hundreds of tips and shortcuts for optimizing the editor, search, navigation, windows layouts, and other capabilities. As a member of the Visual Studio Core Team, the author analyzed nearly every feature in the core environment—unearthing the tips and tweaks that streamline work and maximize efficiency. Get practical insights into how IDE features work, and how to quickly adapt them for any programming language.\ Accelerate your productivity with...
Unlock the secrets of Visual Studiolearning hundreds of tips and shortcuts for optimizing the editor, search, navigation, windows layouts, and other capabilities. As a member of the Visual Studio Core Team, the author analyzed nearly every feature in the core environmentunearthing the tips and tweaks that streamline work and maximize efficiency. Get practical insights into how IDE features work, and how to quickly adapt them for any programming language.Accelerate your productivity with Sara’s Top Six Tipsand hundreds more: Avoid accidentally copying blank lines Select only vertical columns of code Cycle through the clipboard to paste multiple elements Use incremental search to find what you are typing Increase your overall environment font size Use tracepoints to log the contents of a variable
1 Get back to basics with your editor 12 Make your editor work for you 273 Find what you are searching for 594 Manage your environment layout 735 Discover more tools for your design time, part 1 1056 Discover more tools for your design time, part 2 1477 Know your solutions, and other project and debugging tweaks 169 A Visual studio factoids 199 B Tips on blogging tips 203 C Software testing tips 207 D How I started programming 211 Index 219