10 Visual Studio tips to improve your development productivity

10 Visual Studio tips to improve your development productivity

As a .NET developers we spend a lot of time with our favorite IDE “Visual Studio”. It is very powerful and has lot of features that enhance our productivity. However, not everyone uses all these Visual Studio features together or not using some of them when though they might help or may not be aware of. Here is list of 10 tips, that you can use to configure your development environment; use below  productivity tips to boost up the productivity.

  1. Keep Track of your active files inside Solution Explorer – A Quick Visual Studio Tip
  2. Automatically place the ‘System’ directives first when ‘Sorting Usings’ option in Visual Studio
  3. How to keep track of Miscellaneous files efficiently in Visual Studio
  4. Use “Run To Cursor” and save time while debugging
  5. How to Place your reusable code into Toolbox in Visual Studio?
  6. Automatically Show the Output Window During Build in Visual Studio
  7. Compare Clone Code in Visual Studio
  8. Automatically Remove and Sort Using on Save in Visual Studio
  9. Run Web Application in Multiple Browser Simultaneously from Visual Studio
  10. Create your own development environment View – Custom Windows Layouts in Visual Studio
Abhijit Jana

Abhijit runs the Daily .NET Tips. He started this site with a vision to have a single knowledge base of .NET tips and tricks and share post that can quickly help any developers . He is a Former Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, CodeProject MVP, Mentor, Speaker, Author, Technology Evangelist and presently working as a .NET Consultant. He blogs at http://abhijitjana.net , you can follow him @AbhijitJana . He is the author of book Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide.