Chapter 1. Get Back to Basics with Your Editor

Performance improvements in Microsoft Visual Studio begin in the editor. There’s no other action you do more than just pure typing, whether you are typing code, editing code, or deleting code. Think of these tips as a coin jar, where you put your spare change. Even if one of these tips saves you a few seconds, those few seconds really start to add up throughout the days, weeks, and months. That’s a lot of spare time saved!

Basic Editing

Regardless of whether you’re coding in C# or editing a plain text file, there are some basic tips you can use for any editing experience.

Text Editing

Over time, we developers form "muscle memory" for how to perform certain tasks, and we do a task in this familiar way ...

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