I am very much enjoying the idea that when I have a question or a problem I can just google it. Of course there are also some excellent peer-to-peer sites.

http://stackoverflow.com/

is a must. It is not unusual there for questions to be answered within 2 or 3 minutes.

If you do a lot of C# Resharper is a tool that is quite good, but it seems to slow down VB quite a bit ( there is a VB centric version that is cheaper as it doesn't have as many features)

Remember a big difference between VB and C# in the development environment is that the compiler is always churning in VB. That can make it get kind of slow when projects get very large.

You will also want to download Linqpad
www.linqpad.net

It is great for Linq, of course, but also is like a command window / snippet tester for both C# and VB. Check out this presentation from the author :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6-iUNfJsJw




>Well, there you go again, another cool thing I just downloaded! I guess once you get your bag of tools, you can finally go to work, eh? There seems to be a lot of these things out there to help in VS development.
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>Cecil
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>>Another thing I found pretty cool was being able to right click on a sub or function and pick "show all instances" or to be on a call to a method or function and right click and go to definition. You'll also find many times right clicking and renaming will rename all instances.
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>>I've really been into using snippets for big chunks of freqeuntly used code (this is a bit different in C# and VB ) I love this thing :
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>>http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor

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