Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity

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 Sara’s Top Six Tips—and 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

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 Sara’s Top Six Tips—and 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

Sara Ford worked as a Software Design Engineer in Testing on the Visual Studio Core Team for five years and across three product cycles. She has had the unusual experience of learning and testing every feature of the Visual Studio IDE. In 2007, Sara began a daily blog, which fast became the most-frequented Microsoft Web site, "Visual Studio Tip of the Day".