- Paperback: 230 pages
- Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS; 1 edition (15 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735626405
- ISBN-13: 978-0735626409
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.6 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 576,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is unlike most programming books I have read in the past as it purely deals with features of Visual Studio rather than teaching you a particular new language or feature of .Net itself.
Whilst it reveals its source material from Saras blog postings a few times with repetitive asides I would recommend it as:
1) you will definitely learn something from it that will help you if you use Visual Studio day in day out.
2) It also offers an insight into the effort put in by Microsoft for usability and testing that can help you improve your own systems, especially showcasing how power users can gain tremendously from features that will have no impact on occassional users.
I have certainly learnt a few things from it both about usability and Visual Studio itself, despite having used Visual Studio since V5.
Whilst it reveals its source material from Saras blog postings a few times with repetitive asides I would recommend it as:
1) you will definitely learn something from it that will help you if you use Visual Studio day in day out.
2) It also offers an insight into the effort put in by Microsoft for usability and testing that can help you improve your own systems, especially showcasing how power users can gain tremendously from features that will have no impact on occassional users.
I have certainly learnt a few things from it both about usability and Visual Studio itself, despite having used Visual Studio since V5.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Awesome Book on the Visual Studio IDE
28 Oct 2008
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A lot of folksy blog for very little useful content
21 April 2009
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I thought this book was really going to help me learn important tricks to make Visual Studio use more productive, but I was pretty disappointed. There are a lot of tips, for sure, mostly having to do with arcane keyboard shortcuts. There were several which were absolute gold, but most of them did little for me, and the truly great tips were so buried in the clutter, they were hard to find. Perhaps a tip rating system (5 star tips vs 1 star tips) might have helped. The worst thing was that there were these constant blog-like entries which provided no content whatsoever; I especially grew to dislike the "I'm not sure what good this tip is, but you can also do this..." gibberish. I realize that's because the book contents were taken from the author's blog, but it makes for a really poor book-reading experience. It seemed hastily put-together and poorly edited. I wasn't looking for a terse academic treatise, but I really disliked the blog delivery. It was all "ah, heck" folksy attempt with very little content per page.
90% of all Microsoft Press books are really good; I was disappointed to find that this book is clearly in the 10% which are not. I strongly urge Microsoft not to permit this kind of watered-down content in future MP books, and I urge readers to look for something better.
90% of all Microsoft Press books are really good; I was disappointed to find that this book is clearly in the 10% which are not. I strongly urge Microsoft not to permit this kind of watered-down content in future MP books, and I urge readers to look for something better.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Recommended
30 Nov 2008
Format:Paperback
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.
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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