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Microsoft Visual Studio Tips 1st Edition

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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

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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.

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  • 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
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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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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Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2008
If you're one of the millions of developers who use Visual Studio every day, your daily productivity will benefit from mastering the tips found in Sara Ford's book. Most of these tips will only save you a few seconds or less; however, considering that you'll perform these operations hundreds of times per day, you stand to save yourself a lot of time and effort. Mastering Visual Studio begins with Sara's book.

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.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2011
Well, I've randomly skimmed through the book several times now, and have found exactly one tip that is not obvious. All the others so far are either well known or I have run across them before by just using Visual Studio. I guess the book would be valuable though for a completly novice VS user.
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2010
Supported relative who wrote this and gave her royalties to Waveland 'computer' students going to college on the MS Coast. Her BLOG 'comments' indicate she did a GREAT JOB! Thanks SARA!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013
the tips are extremely helpful. Easy to read! With practice the tips become second nature, replacing time consuming bad habits.
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2009
Everytime there is a new IDE (Integrated Development Environment), immediately there will be some book or quick tutorial in customizing keyboard shortcuts in accomplishing some thing that would normally require three actions, either by menu item selection of keystrokes. This book definitely shows you how. But there are some disappointments: for example, in the text replace section, it correctly shows how to replace code with other code, but it is entirely from a mindset of a writer on a word processor and not of a developer. For example, if I want to rename a class method such as read() to triggerRead(), i must then replace all the invokations to the method read in instantiated objects of that class. If I do a global text/replace, I will end up replacing read() that belong to other classes, and that is not what I want to do. The refactoring tools do that, and didn't see this approach explained in the book. Similarly, in the section about the Object Browser, it would be great to see a listing of all the code occurrences in which a specific method is invoked (in Smalltalk environment, that would be "show me all the senders of this message"), and also a listing of all the implementers of a method. In the latter case, if I suspect there may be more than one class that has implemented the method read(), I would like to see a listing of such classes. Unfortunately this book doesn't go that far.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2008
Valuable information for all developers. The book is pretty well organized, and I like all the screen shots, although in some shots of mouse hovers, I would have preferred if a transparent arrow cursor image had been pasted on the screen shot for clarity.

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.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2009
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.
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014
Thank you!