Visual Studio Tutor

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]DocumentsVisual Studio10StartPages). Open StartPage.csproj and note that the StartPage.xaml file is a standard XAML [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]