March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Help and Research
Hacks 59–67
To be an efficient developer you have to know how to best get help and per-
form research. It is not a coincidence that most developers discovered Goo-
gle before normal users did and probably use Google more than most users.
Looking for documentation and researching problems and bugs is a large
part of any programmer’s job. Knowing the best ways to get help and do
your own research goes a long way to making you a more efficient devel-
oper.
The hacks in this chapter cover how to use the help built into Visual Studio
as well as a number of different ways to search Google and other search
engines directly from Visual Studio.
You’ll also see how to delve into the internals of the .NET Framework using
both ILDASM and Reflector, how to use FxCop to enhance the quality of
your code, and how to use the Allocation Profiler that examines the garbage
collection heap.
HACK
#59
Get Help Hack #59
Visual Studio’s help is of the F1 variety, but it also goes way beyond that.
Learn how to get the most from Visual Studio’s built-in help.
Visual Studio includes a rich help experience, one that improves even more
with the release of Visual Studio 2005. Knowing how to best use help can
help make you a more efficient and faster developer.
Press F1 for Help
Like most applications, the main key to remember with the Visual Studio
help system is F1. Visual Studio’s F1 is
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