Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft® Visual Studio®

Introduction

Visual Studio is sexy. In the world of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), it stands as a beautiful example of how environments should work. Yet many of the features created to improve productivity, I believe, are largely neglected. Most developers use only a small percentage of the capabilities in this wonderful product—not because they don’t want to use them, but because developers don’t know they exist.

In most books that address the various .NET languages or technologies, Visual Studio seems to be mentioned almost as an afterthought; to be fair, its focus is primarily on the language or technology that’s the subject of the book, not the IDE—which is as it should be. On the other side of the coin, books written about Visual ...