Microsoft Visual Studio Tips |  | Author: Sara Ford
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0735626405
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7882
EAN: 9780735626409
ASIN: 0735626405
Publication Date: October 27, 2008
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Product Description
Just as a race car team analyzes every aspect of car and driver data to optimize endurance and speed imagine your potential if you could optimize every aspect of daily coding activities with Visual Studio! The author a member of the Visual Studio team for five years has identified 251 tips to help you do just that. In her own words, There was much about Visual Studio I didn t know...until I had to learn and test it ALL. What I discovered is that although Visual Studio has a lot of options, it isn t endless and it doesn t have to be overwhelming. In fact, Visual Studio can be mastered and in this book I show you how. Performance enhancements begin in the editor, and include every other feature you touch when coding in the IDE. This book collects, illustrates, and categorizes the tips and tweaks you can apply right now to help optimize your daily routine and productivity
Key Book Benefits
Delivers hundreds of proven tweaks for the Visual Studio IDE, all designed to help maximize developers time Provides practical insights into how and why features work as they do, and how to change them to suit individual needs Delves into the Visual Studio editor, searching, navigation, layout, and other capabilities 100% of the author s royalties will be donated to relief efforts in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina
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 Useful for the advanced Developer! September 3, 2009
Thorsten Claus
I read Sara's Blog for a long time now. There I saw that she has written a book with all her most userful tip I bought it.
The book covers useful tips, Keycodes and many shortcuts for the dayly developer which make the code-handling more efficent.
VB.NET or C# doesnt matter, most tips are for booth Coders.
For the daily professional developer the book is a must-have.
regards from Germany
Thorsten
great book June 30, 2009
Ryan M. Moenck (Saint Peter, MN)
I'm through the first chapter and into the second; I've learned about 5-10 useful things that I've already put into practice at work.
Great Time Saving Tips May 11, 2009
John Grove (Simi Valley, CA)
This books rocks but it is very small. I saw it at Borders running for a little bit more then Amazon. I sat and almost read the whole thing while I was at Borders. Great book, but it really should be a little bit less.
 A lot of folksy blog for very little useful content April 21, 2009
PrettyField (Sonoma, CA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I thought this book was really going to help me learn important tricks to make Visual Studio use more productive, but I was pretty disappointed. There are a lot of tips, for sure, mostly having to do with arcane keyboard shortcuts. There were several which were absolute gold, but most of them did little for me, and the truly great tips were so buried in the clutter, they were hard to find. Perhaps a tip rating system (5 star tips vs 1 star tips) might have helped. The worst thing was that there were these constant blog-like entries which provided no content whatsoever; I especially grew to dislike the "I'm not sure what good this tip is, but you can also do this..." gibberish. I realize that's because the book contents were taken from the author's blog, but it makes for a really poor book-reading experience. It seemed hastily put-together and poorly edited. I wasn't looking for a terse academic treatise, but I really disliked the blog delivery. It was all "ah, heck" folksy attempt with very little content per page.
90% of all Microsoft Press books are really good; I was disappointed to find that this book is clearly in the 10% which are not. I strongly urge Microsoft not to permit this kind of watered-down content in future MP books, and I urge readers to look for something better.
Who knew the IDE was so feature rich April 12, 2009
Ross Mason (Birmingham, Al, USA)
Scott Mitchell of MSDN turned me on to this book, Visual Studio Tips. It came in this morning and I have spent the rest of the day going through it. It is outstanding. Who knew the IDE was so feature rich. Most of the code I write today is in Visual studio. The tips in Sara's book have opened up a whole new world of efficiency for me.
My Top Five Tips from Sara Ford
5) Tip 3.1 Incremental searches
4) Tip 2.29 Bookmark all Quick Find results, However I wish it would bookmark all my quick replacements so I could review them to make sure I didn't replace something wrong.
3) Tip 4.7 Ctrl-Tab through open files
2) Tip 4.3/4.4 copy a files full path and open the explore to the active file folder
1) Tip 2.40 Tab Tab to insert Snippets
I recommend this book to anyone who codes in the Visual Studio.
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