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Visual Studio Features can save us a lot of time

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During a meeting I realized how useful is one of Visual Studio features. There are small things offered by our IDEs that are using but we don’t realize the real value of this features (we save a lot of time).
During a meeting we had to  search for a property with a specific name. We didn't remember the name of the property exactly, but what we knew about it were the acronyms – “LTS”.
How you could search for something like this a few years ago?
Well, maybe you would try a full project search using regular expression for something like “ L*T*S* “. This may work, but a lot of false results you would found.
In Visual Studio 2013, you have the option to make a quick search from “Solution Explorer” window (‘CTRL+;’ shortcut). In this search field you can write directly the acronym of a field, property, method or class and so on. The IDE is smart enough to detect this and look for results that could be ‘compressed’ as that acronym (of course, for people that are using ReSharper this features is something that exist from many years).
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I propose to you, from time to time to look over the features that IDE and other tools offer to us and learn them. Small things like this can save us a lot of time and cane improve the quality of our working hours :-).

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