Microsoft Visual Studio Tips

Sara Ford is the Senior Product and Community Manager at Black Duck Software for Ohloh.net, the largest public destination for finding and evaluating open source software. Prior to Black Duck, she worked for nine years at Microsoft Corp., where she was responsible for CodePlex.com, the open source project hosting forge for Microsoft. She started her career as a software tester on Visual Studio, a software development tool, where she drove the effort to make it possible for developers who are blind or have low-vision be able to write software applications. She is the author of Visual Studio Tips, published by Microsoft Press, where she donated her author royalties to start a scholarship fund (http://www.mgccc.edu/news/book_raises_scholarship_money_for_MGCCC_students.php) designed for residents of her hometown Waveland, Miss. To attend the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

1. Get Back to Basics with Your Editor 2. Make Your Editor Work for You 3. Find What You Are Searching For 4. Manage Your Environment Layout 5. Discover More Tools for Your Design Time, Part 1 6. Discover More Tools for Your Design Time, Part 2 7. Know Your Solutions, and Other Projects and Debugging Tweaks A. Visual Studio Factoids B. Tips on Blogging Tips C. Software Testing Tips D. How I Started Programming