#296 10 Visual Studio Tips & Tricks You Probably DON'T KNOW

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10 Visual Studio Tips & Tricks You Probably DON'T KNOW

In this video, I show ten extremely useful Visual Studio features.

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Writing any significantly complex software application involves the use of encapsulation boundaries and abstractions. Think about the smallest bit of executable code in your program: an expression or perhaps a statement. This typically maps roughly to a line of code. You can build entire applications using only this structure. If you do, they look something like this:

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