Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® Tips: 251 Ways to Improve Your Productivity by Sara Ford

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  • Pub. Date: October 2008
  • 352pp
  • Sales Rank: 192,087

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    • Pub. Date: October 2008
    • Publisher: Microsoft Press
    • Format: Paperback, 352pp
    • Sales Rank: 192,087

    Synopsis

    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.

    • 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

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    Biography

    Sara Ford worked as a Software Design Engineer in Testing on the Visual Studio Core Team for five years and across three product cycles. She has had the unusual experience of learning and testing every feature of the Visual Studio IDE. In 2007, Sara began a daily blog, which fast became the most-frequented Microsoft Web site, "Visual Studio Tip of the Day".

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    April 06, 2009: This is NOT your usualy geek book on VB.Net. It takes the novel approach to go beyond standard training to open the window on a BUNCH of GREAT utilities and free add-ons that will pay big dividends. The book more than paid for itself when I needed to create an Excel spreadsheet from a PC that doesn't have Excel installed. The book referenced a free tool that could be used to write an XML file that was compliant w/ Excel's format and was viewed as an Excel file. Saved me MANY hours and provided a tool that I can use on dozens of other projects.

    There are 251 such items in here. Even if you only use 5, it will be a big time and money saver.

    GREAT IDEA! Thanks, Sara Ford, for coming up w/ this great idea.

    I Also Recommend: Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008.