Just found a few websites that show some Visual Studio tips that I haven't seen before, so I thought I'd share:
Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com/visual-studio-tips-and-tricks/
I came across this great article which talks about simply unloading projects from a solution to make the solution load and build faster in Visual Studio. This is great, as some of the solution files I work in contain over 300 projects and it can sometimes take a while to load. Also, because the information about which projects to load is stored in the .suo file (not the .sln file itself), this can be configured per developer so they only have to load the projects that they work in (the .suo files ......
One of the greatest benefits of building your solution flies in MSBuild (vs in Visual Studio directly) is that it doesn't lock up the Visual Studio UI, which can be a huge pain if you have a large solution that takes several minutes (or longer) to build. Building your solution in MSBuild leaves you free to inspect code in Visual Studio while your solution is building. The only problem is that to do this you have to open a command prompt and type the command + path every time to build. If you want ......