Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tips
Just as a race car team analyzes every aspect of car and driver data to optimize endurance and speed imagine your potential if you could optimize every aspect of daily coding activities with Visual Studio! The author a member of the Visual Studio team for five years has identified 251 tips to help you do just that. In her own words, There was much about Visual Studio I didn t know...until I had to learn and test it ALL. What I discovered is that although Visual Studio has a lot of options, it isn t endless and it doesn t have to be overwhelming. In fact, Visual Studio can be mastered and in this book I show you how. Performance enhancements begin in the editor, and include every other feature you touch when coding in the IDE. This book collects, illustrates, and categorizes the tips and tweaks you can apply right now to help optimize your daily routine and productivity
Key Book Benefits
Delivers hundreds of proven tweaks for the Visual Studio IDE, all designed to help maximize developers time Provides practical insights into how and why features work as they do, and how to change them to suit individual needs Delves into the Visual Studio editor, searching, navigation, layout, and other capabilities 100% of the author s royalties will be donated to relief efforts in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina
Top 3 - Most helpful customer reviews
Awesome Book on the Visual Studio IDE
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.
R. Tipton28 October, 2008
Recommended
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.
Uncaged30 November, 2008
Performance-Enhancing Book
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.
Robert W. Caron27 October, 2008