Visual Studio Tutor

Introduction
Prior to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, managing database projects had been a real challenge. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Database Professional Edition (also known as Data dude) simplified this process and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR 2 further, along with several bug fixes, enhanced its capability to support newest feature of SQL Server 2008. New release i.e. Microsoft Visual Studio [...]

Visual Studio LightSwitch (previously codenamed Kitty Hawk) is a new VS extension from Microsoft which is targeted at professional developers looking to create custom enterprise apps using data from multiple sources.
Developers building apps for large enterprises often encounter the problem that the data required to be pulled into the app exists in numerous [...]

T4 is a Visual Studio code-generation language which was introduced with Visual Studio 2005. T4 templates are used in the Entity Framework and MVC and can be useful for your own development purposes.
T4 is not tightly integrated into Visual Studio and there iss no item templates in File > New Item and no intellisense or [...]

Visual Studio 2010 allows for customization of  the start page, this feature can be  used this feature to display items such as  build status, current bugs,  etc.

1. Navigate to the StartPages folder in File Explorer (in Windows Vista and Windows 7 this is located at C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Visual Studio\10\StartPages). Open StartPage.csproj and note that the StartPage.xaml file is a standard XAML page [...]

Pre-2010 versions of  Visual Studio had a  snippets feature which allowed users to  save code blocks for later insertion. Visual Studio 2010 contains a numerous new snippets (especially ASP.NET snippets) and allows users to easily create their own snippets. Creating snippets in VS2008 was possible but without using third-party tools it was a tricky process.
VS 2010 greatly simplifies [...]

If there’s a single feature of Visual Studio that every developer uses and is essential to the development process it is the built-in debugger.
Debugging can be commenced by clicking the green arrow button in the VS toolbar, selecting Debug-Strart Debugging from the menu, or hitting F5. Before commencing debugging you will need to select what [...]