ECO for VS: Great blog available to getting used to short cuts and other "different" things in the Microsoft IDE

Borland’s IDE have been a part of my life since I am 9 years old. I got used to the short-cuts and thus know the IDE by heart. In school we had to look at different versions of VB, but I never really got used to the different approach to do things and I also got confused as Microsoft used different short-cuts. Now with ECO IV for VS being in the beta stage, I am stepping on VS territory again. The F5 key is definitely worst. In Borland IDEs (and now in CodeGear’s) the F5 key sets a breakpoint whereas in VS you run the application in debugging mode. Of course, in the Borland IDE there is a setting to change the shortcuts to the MS-style and there is a plugin available for VS to make the shortcuts work like in a Borland IDE.

All great. However, there are so many things that are not related to short-cuts and be it as simple as docking and undocking a window. It works very differently in VS. Yesterday, I found an awesome blog. Sara Ford writes one tip per day on Visual Studio 2008 on her blog. Actually, she sometimes blogs more than once a day and if you are just interested in the VS 2008 tips, use this URL to access them: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+2008+Tip+of+the+Day/default.aspx 

Sara Ford works for Microsoft and is part of the Visual Studio core team, so she definitely knows what she is talking about. Thanks for the great blog!