.Net Development Tips

I found very handy site called ".NET Tip of The Day". It has posts with heaps of good tips. Below is the list of tips I find very useful for my own use and future reference. I will expand this list as I go through it. Feel free to comment and suggest your own tips.

• Use DebuggerStepThrough attribute to save time when debugging
• How to check email works with no SMTP
• Use DebuggerDisplay attribute for a better debugger experience
• Use parameters instead of string concatenation for forming SQL queries
• Conditional compilation with ConditionalAttribute
• How to perform DateTime calculations in a right way
• Incremental search in Visual Studio
• Quickly locate where the exceptions are thrown
• Don’t clear the stack trace when re-throwing an exception
• Linking a file in Visual Studio.NET
• COALESCE function instead of long CASE WHEN ... ELSE (T-SQL)
• Use DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up class view in a debugger
• Big solutions can be organized using Solution Folders
• How to change the default view for Web pages and WinForms in Visual Studio
• Don't generate unnecessary WinForm members for Label controls
• Simplify the usability of your generic methods with type parameter inference
• Consider using System.IO.Path.Combine() instead of string concatenation
• Use Path.GetRandomFileName() or Path.GetTempFileName() when working with temp files
• Conditional breakpoints in Visual Studio
• ?? operator (C#)
• Two approaches to update database row if exists, insert if not
• Improve your code readability: make more sense to conditions
• Verbatim string literals
• Debugger variable $exception
• Validate integer value before casting it to an Enum type
• Speed testing in .NET - System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch
• Optimize the launch of the Visual Studio 2005
• Add Windows Explorer to your Visual Studio tools menu
• Send an e-mail any time an unhandled exception occurs
• Correct event invocation
• .NET Developers’ Reference Card Roundup
• Visual Studio Tips & Tricks