As a software design engineer in testing on the Visual Studio Core Team, Ford analyzed nearly every feature of the Visual Studio core environment. In 2007, she began the "Visual Tip of the Day" series on her blog, from which this book evolved. The text features 251 tips for mastering the ins and outs of the Visual Studio environment, organized into several sections based on how the Core Team categorized the feature areas for the Visual Studio 2005 product cycle: getting back to basics with your editor; making your editor work for you; finding what you are searching for; managing your environment layout; discovering more tools for your design time; and knowing your solutions, and other project and debugging tweaks. The text is optimized for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; all tips will work in Visual Studio 2005, unless noted as a feature specific to Visual Studio 2008. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)