Visual Studio 2010 Tricks
Tricks for Visual Studio 2010 to improve your focus and efficiency
What you'll learn
Visual Studio is your toolbox and knowing how to use that toolbox will make you a faster more efficient coder that's not distracted by the complexity of your environment. Almost all the tricks in Visual Studio 2010 work in Visual Studio 2012 as well, and many also work in previous versions of Visual Studio. You'll learn how to leverage IntelliSense and more efficiently edit code. You'll see a boatload of keystrokes in the context of getting things done. Find and Replace has some of the most underutilized features of Visual Studio and you'll learn how to speed up simple searches by avoiding the Find dialog, nuances of exploring symbols, and Regular Expression for find and replace.
Table of contents
- IntelliSense Introduction 2m
- C# Autocomplete and List Members 3m
- VB Autocomplete and List Members 5m
- C# Pascal and Partial Word Search 2m
- VB Partial Word Search 1m
- C# Parameter Info and Quick Info 2m
- VB Parameter Info and Quick Info 3m
- TDD Feature - Suggestion Mode 2m
- Custom IntelliSense for XML 4m
- Summary 3m
- Editing Introduction 1m
- General Editing 2m
- User Specific Code Appearance 3m
- Code formatting and Whitespace 4m
- Selecting Code 3m
- Column Selection 2m
- Copy Paste 4m
- Using Snippets in C# 4m
- Using Snippets in VB 3m
- More on Snippets 2m
- Authoring, Changing and Sharing Snippets 6m
- Special Case Autocomplete for C# 7m
- Special Case Autocomplete for VB 4m
- Summary 2m
- Search Introduction 1m
- Find Basics 4m
- Find Combobox 5m
- Incremental Find B 7m
- Find in Files 7m
- Find Symbol 7m
- Wildcard searches 4m
- Regular Expression Basics 5m
- Deeper into Regular Expressions 4m
- Multiline and Greedy Searches 4m
- Replace Basics 5m
- RegEx Replace 5m
- Complex RegEx Replace 8m
- Pulling Find Features Together 6m
- Search Conclusion 1m
About the author
Kathleen Dollard is a .NET Team Coach. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and is an ASP.NET Insider. Kathleen is an INETA Speaker and has given over a hundred speeches around the world. Fluent in both C# and Visual Basic, she’s interested in making core .NET technologies, the best open source tools, and reasonable processes available to all coders so they can to write better software faster. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures including MEF, WebAPI, ROC, and NetKerne... more