Just like a race car team analyzes every aspect of a car and driver data to optimize durability and potential speed you imagine if you could optimize every aspect of daily coding activities with Visual Studio! The author of the Visual Studio team for five years has identified the 251 tips to help you do just that. This book collects, describes, and categorizes the tips and tweaks that can be applied today to help optimize your daily routine and productivity Key Book Benefits Provides hundreds of proven tweaks to the Visual Studio IDE, all designed to help maximize the time the developer provides practical insights about how and why the features work as they do, and how to change it according to individual needs to dig into the Visual Studio editor, search, navigation, layout , and other capabilities 100% of author's royalties will be donated to relief efforts in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina