As I announced yesterday I will be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.1 on Visual Studio 2008 for beginners. As part of this presentation I want to be able to provide the 10 most valuable tips for beginners using Visual Studio.
I did a quick search of the internet last night, on this subject, and everything seemed to point to Sara Ford as the defacto standard on Visual Studio tips. She even has a best selling book on the subject, appropriately called Microsoft Visual Studio Tips.
And because she is such an awesome person all the royalties from the book are going to a scholarship fund to help pay for the the costs of sending Hurricane Katrina survivors to college. So if you are interested go pick up a copy.
The problem is that she has 251 tips in the book, and 382 tips on her website and I need to widdle this down to the top 10.
Here are my top 3, so far:
- Did you know… You can create toolbar buttons to quickly toggle your favorite VS Settings? – #372
- Did you know… how not to accidentally copy a blank line? – #050
- Did you know… How to optimize Visual Studio for multi-monitors? – #381
What are yours? If you have a favorite please include it in the comments below with a link (if possible).
Code Camp, philly.net, Public Speaking, Visual Studio
Extending the Visual-Studio Context-Menu and adding useful commands that don’t exist by default, such as “Explore” (file or folder) or “Execute” (file):
http://www.sharpregion.com/blog/?p=105