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Learning Topics Getting Started Getting Started Guide Guided Tour of Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Learn about the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Debugging with Visual Studio Learn about the Visual Studio Debugger Deploying with Visual Studio Learn about deploying with Visual Studio Extending Visual Studio Visual Studio Extensibility Build Applications with Visual Studio Windows Applications Office Applications Mobile Device Applications Browser Applications SharePoint Applications Windows Azure Applications Learn the Visual Studio Languages Visual Studio 2010 Code Samples Visual Studio 2008 Code Samples Visual Basic Visual C# Visual C++ JScript F# Tips and Tricks Videos By Scott Cate #67 Search in hidden text in the editor? Ever try to search for something you know exists, BUT … the Quick Find just can’t find... more #66 Using Quick find in the Current Document The standard keyboard shortcut for finding text in most applications is CTRL+F. In Visual Studio, th... more #65 Edit.WordComplete via Intellisense Whenever you can invoke statement completion, you can also execute the Edit.CompleteWord command.&nb... more #64 Keyboard Shortcut to Display Quick Info Tooltip As you mouse over a method in the Editor, a nice tooltip (as seen in the image below) is displayed f... more #63 Copy Paste Parameter Info from the Tooltip Intellisence is great. It shows us a lot, and mostly at the perfect time. When parameter info is bei... more Popular Visual Studio 2008 Books Professional Visual Studio 2008 by Nick Randolph and David Gardner     Visual Studio 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Rick Leinecker and Vanessa L. Williams     Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) by Rod Stephens More Visual Studio Books...

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