Visual Studio Commands and the Command Window

In the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I grew up with command line interfaces, which offered vast improvements over punched cards.  As a result, I find it immensely helpful to know about Visual Studio Commands and I frequently use the Command Window, both in Command Mode and Immediate Mode.  Learning how to use these Visual Studio tools can really increase an engineer's efficiency in .NET development.  Oh, and don't forget to memorize some of the Pre-defined Visual Studio Command Aliases (even though you can get a list of them any time by entering "alias" in the Command Window). Of course, you can really hum if you create your own Custom Aliases for complex operations you execute frequently.  It is worth taking some time to get to know these tools.  Strongly recommended!