5 Useful Tips & Tricks for Visual Studio - Part 1

In this episode, I share 5 useful tips & tricks that you may or may to know about, but will certainly improve how you work with Visual Studio everyday.

1. Quick Launch
2. Navigate To
3. Peek
4. Set Next Statement (debugging)
5. Paste JSON/XML as C#

[amnesia]

The json trick is slick! Great time server.

It's incredible I've never noticed the Quick Launch in so many years.
Unfortunately with Resharper (which is real porn, you should give it a try) the Quicklaunch shortcut is disabled, so it gets less useful for everyday use.

Also the Paste special thing, very nice surprise.

Btw great vid, waiting for the next ones.

[Sevius]

Thank you for video. I hope you will continue to uncover useful tips and tricks which can speed up performance.
Thanks a lot!

[stevetaylor]

The most glorious discovery I made was the "When Hit" option for breakpoints.  It allows you to write debug messages to Output (including calculating functions etc.). It works like TRACE used to MFC.

[ledfootdude]

Great Video!!!  I've only done a couple of C# classes in college so I didn't know any of these tips.  Thanks again  :)

[mycollegeshirt]

this tip changed my coding life, first just box selection, which you can do by just holding alt and moving the mouse around, pretty cool, also you can use the keyboard alt+shift with the arrow keys to make the box now if you make a box selection with no width, youll see a thin blue line, start typing and you get multi line writing ex.
setingvars.isEasier =
setingvars.isEasier =
setingvars.isEasier =
setingvars.isEasier =
also cntrl I is coolsville too, it searches in your current file

[akn]

Instead of "Set next statement" you can drag and drop the yellow arrow on debug mode to any line that you want. That is a little bit faster IMHO.

[robertshuxley]

OMG I wished I had known #5 Paste JSON/XML as classes was a thing!
I used to manually type json to classes and enums T_T

[LuizGustavoJS]

Nice video! Thanks for the useful tips!

[junecolorsoft]

great tips， savetime is save life! Thanks a lot

[asrajan]

What is the VS theme you are using in this video? It looks very nice and useable. Thanks.

[hamzehhanandeh]

thank you, its nice and helpful vedio

[thomaselder]

Could you explain to me the "references" counter that appears about classes and functions? What does it do and how is that feature enabled?

[tenaciousz]

I'm using VS 2012 and don't see Peek Definition (shortcut doesn't work either). Do I have to install a NuGet package or something? Thanks!

[marlondivino]

Mauricio Alexandre   a parte do json e do xml eu tirei o chapéu..kakakaka