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Microsoft Visual Studio Tips 1st Edition
Unlock the secrets of Visual Studio—learning hundreds of tips and shortcuts for optimizing the editor, search, navigation, windows layouts, and other capabilities. As a member of the Visual Studio Core Team, the author analyzed nearly every feature in the core environment—unearthing the tips and tweaks that streamline work and maximize efficiency. Get practical insights into how IDE features work, and how to quickly adapt them for any programming language.
Accelerate your productivity with Sara’s Top Six Tips—and hundreds more:
- Avoid accidentally copying blank lines
- Select only vertical columns of code
- Cycle through the clipboard to paste multiple elements
- Use incremental search to find what you are typing
- Increase your overall environment font size
- Use tracepoints to log the contents of a variable
- ISBN-109780735626409
- ISBN-13978-0735626409
- Edition1st
- PublisherMicrosoft Press
- Publication dateOctober 15, 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.5 x 0.78 x 9 inches
- Print length272 pages
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About the Author
Sara Ford is the Senior Product and Community Manager at Black Duck Software for Ohloh.net, the largest public destination for finding and evaluating open source software. Prior to Black Duck, she worked for nine years at Microsoft Corp., where she was responsible for CodePlex.com, the open source project hosting forge for Microsoft. She started her career as a software tester on Visual Studio, a software development tool, where she drove the effort to make it possible for developers who are blind or have low-vision be able to write software applications. She is the author of Visual Studio Tips, published by Microsoft Press, where she donated her author royalties to start a scholarship fund (http://www.mgccc.edu/news/book_raises_scholarship_money_for_MGCCC_students.php) designed for residents of her hometown Waveland, Miss. to attend the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Product details
- ASIN : 0735626405
- Publisher : Microsoft Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780735626409
- ISBN-13 : 978-0735626409
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.78 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,021,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #619 in Visual Basic Programming (Books)
- #1,147 in Microsoft .NET
- #2,375 in Software Design & Engineering
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Sara Ford worked at Microsoft for 9 years, where she worked as a developer on the Visual Studio team and was responsible for CodePlex.com, Microsoft's open source project hosting site. She ran the popular Visual Studio Tip of the Day series on her Microsoft blog.
Sara donated all her author royalties to start a scholarship fund designed for Hurricane Katrina survivors of her hometown Waveland, Miss. to attend the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
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If that's not motivation enough to order a copy today, consider that Sara is donating her royalties from this book to support the Save Waveland Scholarship Fund at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, which is located near Sara's hometown of Waveland, Mississippi. As many will recall, Waveland was nearly wiped off the map when Hurrican Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August of 2005. Sara has chronicled the impact of this event and the subsequent recovery effort on her MSDN blog.
Personally, I could have done without all of the superfluous anecdotes about the author's experiences as a tester, but I suppose that some would prefer the added levity and blog-like delivery.

