Professional Visual Studio® 2008

5.11. Summary

As you've seen in this chapter, Visual Studio 2008 comes with an excellent set of search-and-replacement functionalities that makes your job a lot easier, even if you need to search entire computer file systems for regular expressions. The additional features, such as Find Symbol and Incremental Search, also add to your tool set, simplifying the location of code and objects as well.

The Help Document Explorer is a powerful interface to the documentation that comes with Visual Studio 2008. While it has some new features, the general presentation should be immediately familiar, so you can very easily get accustomed to researching your topics of interest. The ability to switch easily between online and local documentation ensures that you can balance the speed of offline searches with the relevance of information found on the Web. And the abstract paragraphs that are shown in all search results, regardless of their locations, help reduce the number of times you might click a false positive.