August 4, 2003

Visual Studio .NET has a number of useful features that are often underused by developers, because they are hidden under several menus and not easily accessible. Here is a list

When you create a new project, VS.NET automatically creates a folder with the project’s name under the selected directory. If you name your project MyTestProject, and select an existing folder

VS.NET has a nice feature that allows you to visually navigate through the content of hierarchical files, and quickly jump to a particular section. Hierarchical files are all those files

When you create a new ASP.NET Web Application, VS.NET by default creates a folder with the specified application name under the Visual Studio Projects folder (typically under :Documents and SettingsMy

When you build strings by concatenating hardcoded constant strings and variable strings, it’s easy to forget a closing double quote, and thus receive a compile time error when you launch

By default, a solution has a single start-up project, namely the project that is automatically launched when you click Debug | Start or press F5. However, you have the option