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Asked: May 12, 20262026-05-12T08:07:36+00:00 2026-05-12T08:07:36+00:00

I recently got a job working for a company who uses several programming languages

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I recently got a job working for a company who uses several programming languages but mainly focuses on C#, and thus uses Visual Studio 2008.

As lame as it sounds, I don’t know how to use it productively. I don’t know any of the keyboard shortcuts, I didn’t know you could restrict builds to certain parts of a solution until someone showed me. I’m sure there’s a way to “Clean” “Build” “Run” without manually initiating each process, but I don’t know what it is.

If it was just a “Search the help” problem, that’d be easy to solve, but I don’t even know what I might be missing. Is there a productivity feature that everyone else uses and I don’t? {Shrug}

So, what simple features of Visual Studio am I likely to be missing, and how can I find out other power-features to help me become more productive?

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    2026-05-12T08:07:36+00:00Added an answer on May 12, 2026 at 8:07 am

    Sara Ford wrote the book on VS tips and tricks:
    http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft%C2%AE-Visual-Studio%C2%AE-Tips-PRO-Developer/dp/0735626405/

    Here is a blog post with 24 of Sara Ford’s tips
    http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2009/05/28/devdays-09-24-visual-studio-tips.aspx/

    I also recommend James Avery’s book:
    http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Studio-Hacks-Tools-Turbocharging/dp/0596008473

    I hope this helps.

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