It took us a while but the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET is live. We've packed a lot into this redesign and we hope that you enjoy the improvements. I'll start with those items that you might not find all that interesting, but are a HUGE improvement as far as we are concerned: The site is 100...

It took us a while but the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET is live. We've packed a lot into this redesign and we hope that you enjoy the improvements. I'll start with those items that you might not find all that interesting, but are a HUGE improvement as far as we are concerned: The site is 100...

Creating a Custom Code Snippet is pretty easy to do -- you just fire up your favorite text editor, write some XML, and save the results in a *.snippet file. If you use Visual Studio as your text editor, you can even get some XML Intellisense, which is always nice. I am going to create a code snippet...

There is a little used function of Visual Studio that will save you a lot of coding time: Code Snippets. Code Snippets are handy key shortcuts that expand into commonly used .NET constructs such as regions, constructor, loops (do/while/for/foreach), and try/catch blocks. To use a code snippet you can...