Visual Studio .NET is an extremely customizable IDE that is loaded with features. No screen real estate is wasted to give you quick access to commonly used commands and activities and to control and modify your project and solutions.

One of the tips of VS.Net is that you can press Alt and then select the area you want with your mouse. Not only is VS.NET a great editor, it is also a great compiler, debugger, and profiler. There are many hooks into VS.NET that allow you to control your compilation procedure. The following are absolutely essential in trying to locate and fix a bug: analyzing your code, attaching to running processes that you want to debug, and changing code and variables at runtime.

Yet another tips is that you can add a shortcut to the task list with Ctrl+K, Ctrl+H. This will add the current line to the task list.

One useful tip I can mention to you is press Ctrl+Shift+Space to bring up the intellisense suggestions window. When giving parameters for functions, I often need to escape the suggestions window to check another part of code. To bring it back, I used to delete a comma and then type it again; but this is easier.