Kathleen Dollard – Visual Studio Tips and Tricks

You spend hours every day in Visual Studio. Saving just a few minutes every day adds up to saving many hours each year. This session offers a boatload of Visual Studio tips aimed at the primary operations you perform every day – particularly navigation, editing, evaluating code and many different types of searching. There are several flavors of Visual Studio available and this session focuses on the current release – Visual Studio 2010 with and without the Productivity Power Tools. The Productivity Power Tools includes many features that will be included in the next version – Visual Studio 2012. This session will improve your productivity with Visual Studio today and prepare you for Visual Studio 2012.

Bio: Kathleen Dollard

Kathleen Dollard is .NET Coach for Crystal MEF Lab. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and has given hundreds of speeches around the world. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures in relation to specific development platforms. Her experience includes HTML5/JavaScript, Silverlight, and WPF in both C# and Visual Basic. She’s interested in making core .NET technologies available to all coders to enable them to write better software faster. Her newest adventures include Windows Azure and SQL Azure.

Kathleen is also a long-time advocate of generative techniques and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies. Kathleen is active in the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, the Denver Visual Studio User Group, and the Northern Colorado Architect's Group.

This meeting will be held in the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.