It is very common to use resource files in .Net applications when you need to store some data in a XML file. I usually use .resx files as string tables in order to avoid hard coded strings in my code. Two months ago, we published a post about a free tool which helps to extract hard coded strings to resource files. Notice that when you add a resource file, there is an automatically generated class with properties issued from the resources elements, so you can call this class properties instead of using the ResourceManager. The only problem with this class is that its properties are marked as internal and thus can’t be accessed externally (from other assemblies).

Since we got so many comments with lots of useful information on our Visual Studio Shortcuts post we decided to use those comments and some other shortcuts we found and compile another list so lets get going

This is a list of 10 great shortcuts me and my co workers use frequently, we thought you all should know too. Here they are:

CTRL + ".": This is actually a shortcut for a shortcut. it is the same as CTRL + SHIFT + F10 which opens the smart tag window and allows you to [...]