Visual Studio is a rich development environment including windows, toolbars, commands, and editors. Knowing how to quickly and easily move around the development environment makes developing applications that much easier. Being able to quickly and easily find the information you are looking for is a key part of learning how to best work with Visual Studio, whether that information is a piece of source code or a property for a control. Any time spent fumbling around the IDE is time wasted.
The hacks in this chapter cover how to arrange and work with windows, find files quickly, search your files using incremental search and regular expressions, and navigate your source code using shortcuts and task list shortcuts. You'll also learn about a power toy that assigns commands to different mouse buttons and an add-in that enhances the tabs in the document window.