Presented at Canberra VS ALM User Group http://canberravsts.org/ on 10 March 2010. Are you looking for an excuse to move to Visual Studio 2010? Do you simply want to know how to make the most out of an amazing new IDE? This presentation will show you how some of the cool new features in the latest release of VS2010 can help you increase your productivity as a developer.

1. VS2010 Tips, Tricks and General Coolness Ducas Francis Senior Consultant - Readify

2. Hi. My name is Ducas. Yes, Ducas. Yes, like Lucas, but with a D. I’m a Gemini. I like long walks on the beach. And writing code. FAST! kthxbai :-) Who am I

3. Are you a developer…?

4. You’re happy when: What was hard is now easy You’re productive Code is maintainable Your team is effective Developers Should be Happy…

5. I’ve chosen a few cool things to show you Some of them will be new Others will be old What’s going to happen…

6. First up, some old stuff…

7. VS2008 C# Shortcuts Poster - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973&displaylang=en Refactoring support Encapsulate Property, Extract Method, Remove Parameter, Reorder Params, Rename… Ctrl + R, (something) Macros Record = Ctrl + Shift + R Playback = Ctrl + Shift + P Old Stuff…

8. Now some new stuff…

9. 1 - Templates

10. Online Templates

11. A lot more than an empty web site… It even pre-wires the membership, roles and profile providers. New Web Application Template

12. It’s really empty… New Empty Website Template

13. 2 – Deployment & Config Transformation

14. Publishing

15. Config Transformations

16. 3 – Multi-Targeting

17. Uses reference assemblies that contain metadata for .Net Framework implementation Eliminates performance degradation when switching between versions What’s new about that…?

18. 4 – Multi-Monitor Support

19. Floating Code

20. 5 – Code Optimised Web Developer Profile

21. Why do I need Designer view…?

22. 6 – Code Search

23. Supports fuzzy search and Pascal cased search Solution-Wide Search

24. Call Heirarchy

25. 7 - Smart List Intellisense

26. Also support fuzzy and Pascal casing IntelliSense does Search

27. 8 – Code Snippets

28. Typing “<inp” then tabbing twice… Gives you an input tag with appropriate attributes that you can tab through Html Snippets more like in Code

29. 9 - IntelliTrace

30. Traditional debuggers show you the state of your application at the current time IntelliTrace runs in the background, recording important events Allows you to look back at past states of the application where events of interest have been recorded What is it…?

31. The effect of a problem might not be noticeable until much later in the run of your application. Trace files can be created by IntelliTrace or Test Manager and given to developers. Why…?

32. 10 – Architecture Diagrams

33. Dependency Diagram

34. 11 – Consume-First Development

35. Pressing space or tab here accidentally is quite annoying… Normal IntelliSense…

36. Ctrl + Alt + Space toggles Consume-First Can then use Ctrl + . to generate method or class With Consume-First

37. 12 – Test Impact

38. Show/Run Calling Tests

39. Run Impacted Tests

40. Any questions? Anything else you want to see? So that’s about it…

41. ASP.NET 4 & VS 2010 Quick Hits http://www.asp.net/learn ~ 30 videos His Gu-ness http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/08/25/vs-2010-and-net-4-series.aspx MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063%28VS.100%29.aspx Resources

42. thank you :-) email - ducas.francis@readify.net home - http://duc.as blog - http://blog.duc.as/ twitter - @ducas