March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
Content preview from Visual Studio Hacks
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Preface
|
xv
Visual Studio uses commands to do everything: each menu button, toolbar
button, or keyboard shortcut is really just a reference to a command. If you
know the command, you can find the keyboard shortcut in your scheme
using Tools
➝ Options ➝ Keyboard, assign a keyboard shortcut to that com-
mand
[Hack #24], or just use the command through the command window [Hack
#46]
. Whenever we refer to a keyboard shortcut, you will see the name of the
command either in the same sentence or in parentheses after the shortcut.
The format of commands is normally two words separated by a period, for
instance View.ClassView.
How This Book Is Organized
The book is divided into 13 chapters, organized by subject:
Chapter 1, Master Projects and Solutions
Projects and solutions are used to organize files, executables, class
libraries, and anything else that makes up your application. Conse-
quently, learning how to get the most out of projects and solutions can
greatly improve your experience with Visual Studio. This chapter cov-
ers how to get the most out of projects and solutions, including getting
down and dirty with the undocumented format of project and solution
files.
Chapter 2, Master the Editor
At its heart, Visual Studio is just an editor, but it is quite a powerful edi-
tor. The Visual Studio editor includes features like IntelliSense, Syntax
Coloring, Outlining, and much more. Visual Studio 2005 adds
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.