After knocking Visual Studio in my last post, I thought I should also point out some of the things I actually like about it!
It’s easy to talk about the bad things and not the good. To buck that trend I’ll post something each time I come across features I like in VS!
I guess a lot of Excel users won’t known an awful lot about .Net incarnations of Visual Studio, so this might help to point out some of the many cool features Microsoft work hard to get in the product (“¦that sounds like it’s come right of the MS marketing wagon sorry!)

To start with: The Task List Window.

There are two parts to the Task List Window (As you can see, I’m using VB 2008, Express here), one is a check list where you can just write down things that you need to do, feed the washing, dry clean the cat that type of thing. The other part, shown in the picture, is the “TODO” list. If in your code you add a comment that start with the key words TODO, the editor will pick them all up and put them in this list. Very handy if your like me and you end up slapping in “less than perfect” code to get things done. When you get a bit of time, pull up your TODO’s and perfection can be achieved at you leisure!