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Getting the Most Out of Visual Studio .NET

I have used Visual Studio .NET virtually every day for several years, but it still seems at times that I am haplessly bumbling around this intricate development environment.  VS.NET is a beast, with so many options, customizations, and configurations that there's probably only a few dozen people on Earth who actually know all it has to offer.

Anywho, to help myself and others, I have written a short article on 4Guys titled Getting the Most Out of Visual Studio .NET.  Right now it's painfully short, highlighting my ignorance of my everyday IDE of choice.  There's some tips on setting the default page layout, switching the default design view, adding line numbers, creating custom Web Form Wizards, and knowing the keyboard shortcuts.  What I am hoping is that those who read the article have a secret or two up their sleeves, and will drop me a line and share their bit of knowledge.  I'll then tack on any submitted tips or tricks to the article...

So, if you have any advice in how to get the most out of VS.NET, either leave a comment here in the blog or submit your comments via the 4Guys feedback form.

posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 3:34 PM

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# re: Getting the Most Out of Visual Studio .NET 3/27/2004 12:17 PM Korby Parnell

One of my favorite VS.NET productivity tricks is to store code snippets as toolbox items. Arguably, this trick is better for comments than code since you can't reference them. To add text to the Toolbox, highlight it in the code editor, drag it over to your toolbox, and drop it when the tooltip changes from the no smoking sign into rectangle. Thereafter, you can simply drag and drop the snippet to your editor for reuse.

# re: Getting the Most Out of Visual Studio .NET 4/1/2004 10:24 AM jayson knight

Check out this episode of MSDN TV (I believe they are C# only, but not 100% sure).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20030701VSNETJL/manifest.xml

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