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This post explains the some more tips on using Visual C# IDE to enhance developer productivity.

• Solution Configurater  Right click your solution in your IDE then select the ConfigurationManager  you see the following window

where you have the option to select the project for building. We can select the required project in the solution and can you can build the project.

• Solution Wide Comments You can add task lists and comments to your solution. To view the task list for your solution select view menu and click on TaskList option. Ctrl + W, T you will see the following window

You can add the task list items to window by writing the following snippet in the code file.

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C# Developers have been spending most their day activities

with Visual studio IDE. They may have to understand the following activities to do their job.

• Understanding Code Developer must be able analyze the relationship between classes and what API it is using for implementing the logic.
• Navigating Code Developer may or may not know where he want to navigate to the code and keep track of visited files in the code.
• Writing & Modifying Code Developers may require to modify the existing code like refractoring which involves make the code readable and fix bugs etc
• Debugging & Testing Understanding the using of debugger tools and writing unit test cases.

Visual studio provides the tools for all the activities mentioned above to make the developer efficient and productive. This post speaks about using the tools available in VS 2008 sp1. It also discusses about the tool coderush express which Microsoft partnering and allows the developers to download and use freely.

 Download Coderush for C#

1. One of the short cut for goto definition is F12

For example you have an identifier and you want to know where it is declared just press F12. If the identifier is not your project then it shows the metadata of the identifier. eg we are viewing string class

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• C# IDE Tips & Tricks Part 2
• Documenting C# code with XML Comments
• C# ?? operator
• Using keyword in C#
• Calculating the size of the File in C#