Microsoft Visual Studio Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity

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

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.

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.

I pre-ordered the this book back in August and I have to say this is the best book on the Visual Studio IDE that I have ever run across. It is a great collection of tips taken from Sara Ford's ever-popular Visual Studio Tip of the Day. I really like the "Sara Aside" sections where extra insight is given about the tip. There are tips for (but not limited to) the following - * Dealing with the editor * Searching files * Development environment * Debugging * Design time tools If you have to spend any amount of time in Visual Studio then this book is definitely worth the money as I will be referring back to it time and time again. I am also recommending it at my office. Especially for beginners to .NET.

I have been following Sara's blog [...] for a long time and recently discovered that she was making book that covered all the things that most developers do not know or have forgotten when using the Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE. I pre-ordered the book and I am amazed by not only the content but also by the organization of the book. The author has done a great job of organizing the Visual Studio tips so that the reader can find the area and then either read all the tips or browse through the table of contents to find what they are looking for. I spent an hour last night looking at tips that I know will make me more productive when developing software with Visual Studio.