2 Visual Studio 2008 IDE Tips and Tricks Sara Ford Program Manager

3 CodingDebuggingCustomizing Activities

4 Basics Tip #0 – Don’t take notes Content provided on blog

5 Coding Use the right search for the job Search Code more in less time Editing Go to code and files with ease Navigation

6 Coding Tips

7 Search Tip #1 – Incremental search Tip #2 – Find in Files Tip #3 – Repeat search

8 Editing Tip #4 – Box selection Tip #5 – Clipboard ring cycle Tip #6 – Toolbox general tab Tip #7 – Snippet tab tab

9 Navigation Tip #8 – Find Combo Box Tip #9 – File Tab Channel

10 Customizing Changing keyboard shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts Increase font size; reposition windows Window Management Fine-tune your project Project System

11 Customizing Tips

12 Customizing Tip #10 – Change Keybindings Tip #11 – Change Font Sizes Tip #12 – Window Layouts Tip #13 – Miscellaneous files Tip #14 – Opening Visual Studio

13 Debugging Break when needed Breakpoints Remove what is not needed Code Cleanup Take a closer look Examining

14 Debugging Tips

15 Breakpoints and Code Cleanup Tip #15 – Tracepoints Tip #16 – Conditional Breakpoints Tip #17 – Using Statements

16 Examining Tip #18 – Watch Windows Tip #19 – DataTips Windows Tip #20 – Immediate window Tip #21 – Record macros

17 CodingDebuggingCustomizing Summary

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