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Up your productivity game by using these two tricks you probably didn't know existed in Visual Studio. Being more productive F1 key Starting with the best, the F1 key. You didn't know this key did something did you, well, you'll be surprised to know that the F1 key opens up a help page on whatever you have your cursor on. Don't know what a keyword means or does, don't know what the parameters of Parallel.ForEach are, hit F1. Use that F1 key! Clicking the F1 key while your cursor is over the SameSiteMode as shown in the above screenshot, takes us to this page where we can learn more about the SameSiteMode. The task list For when you want to clean up your code base, open up the task list  and get on to fixing those bugs! The task list opens a window that shows all instances of your //TODOs (as well as other symbols in your code). You can open this window by going to View > Task List or (ctrl + \, T). Take this example. An example ...

What's the one thing I'm most excited about that is coming in Visual Studio 2019? All of it! Get ready IntelliCode This is Visual Studio's AI'd approach to coding. It has been learning on good code  and remembering patterns that might be applicable to coding in general. So, as you are coding, it would likely suggest the right method you need to use, as demonstrated in the sample below. IntelliCode in action The tool has been available in Visual Studio 2017 , but in Visual Studio 2019 - it is baked in from the start. What's even better is that IntelliCode will learn from your own code ! Very cool in my opinion. Big thumbs up to Microsoft. Code cleanup I really like the thought of having my editor clean my code up for me. It's not being lazy, it's being smart . Visual Studio 2019 has this built in too. I'd be very excited to see if certain options could be auto-configured to run on Build or Release, but we might have to wait so...

I'll be the first to admit, programming was never something I found easy. My very first experience in programming was when I got this book at the ripe age of 11. I liked playing my Nintendo 64  and wanted to make games on my own. The book that changed it all for me My ability was far under sub-par. Somewhere in these  forums I wrote a post asking for help trying to understand a while loop - needless to say I got defensive because I felt I was being talked down by people smarter than me, telling me that I should start and learn more simpler things first (than dive right into making a PC game). Forums did actually look like this (circa 2005) The truth was, I was being too ambitious. BUT - TwisterMan was not going to code itself! (All drawn in glorious Microsoft Paint :)). Animation frames of TwisterMan doing some whirlwind attack Watch out for spikeo ! *rawr* And whoever this boss was called... Baaaa? The point I'm trying to get across i...

I happened to be browsing on a discord server , which happens to be the now, go-to VOIP platform for gamers (but is also rapidly growing for other interest groups likewise) and saw this image: Woah, super cool! If you had any response like I had, you would be saying right now; how do I get that in my editor?! ClaudiaIDE If you go over to the Visual Studio Marketplace, you will find a tool named ClaudiaIDE  (I assume as some ode to a lady named Claudia). Download and install the tool (close Visual Studio before installing). Let's get ready to load some images, Claudia Please just be wary, this isn't an official tool by Microsoft. If any bugs or issues happen, please go and report them in the tool author's github . I am also not responsible for anything that might happen after you install this (but I feel this is generally safe to install or otherwise it wouldn't be on the Visual Studio Marketplace, right?) Configuration To configure ClaudiaID...