It’s a shame that VS does not have a true “theme engine”, but importing/exporting settings works well enough. Here is a good link that indexes some of the better “schemes” out there:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx
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The Command Window, like the Immediate Window, can be one of those tools that a developer can find to be an invaluable aid and time saver. As the name implies, the Command Window is essentially a shell into Visual Studio and provides a mechanism other than point-and-click to activate and use Visual Studio’s features.
To [...]
A friend pointed me to this: Microsoft has a nice poster you can print off with all of the default keyboard shortcuts/keybindings for Visual Studio.
For Visual Studio 2005, here.
For Visual Studio 2008, here.
Without a doubt, the debugging in Visual Studio is pretty easy to use and powerful. One aspect of it that makes it especially powerful is the ability to extend and customize it to your needs and data. Enter Debugger Visualizers...
Debugger Visualizers are the little pop-up windows that show when you click on the little magnifying [...]
A tool that is integrated into Visual Studio that people often forget about is the Immediate Window. The Immediate Window will allow you to evaluate expressions while debugging. For example, rather than using the visual tool to examine the item within a collection, you can just issue a command in the Immediate Window. Such as:
Intellisense [...]
Some basics.
Anonymous types are an important new feature that allow, at compile time, for the type information for a variable be dropped by the developer. For example:
1: var x = 128;
Line 1 declares the variable x as a variable having an anonymous type using the var keyword. At this point, nothing [...]
So, Linq is supposed to be the future. At least that's what they say. I'll admit, I like it. Right now, I care about how to do stuff with it. There is a lot of great theory out there on the net about it so I really encourage anyone who wants to use Linq [...]
