I hate them. I run some application, and instead of letting me work right away, it decides to pop up and invariably tell me something I already know. My mind is already anticipating the first steps that I’m going to perform, and that flow is abruptly interrupted by the need to push that evil "Close" button. I normally choose to disable it immediately. However, sometimes there may be useful stuff lurking in there, but I never get to revisit them.

Well, here is a list of some tips for Visual Studio 2005 and later, and you maybe surprised… The Ctrl+Shift+V to cycle through the last few entries in the Clipboard caught my attention. Being a heavy copy/paster, I plan to start using it, and look all cool and knowledgeable when a coworker sees me do it and ask "WTF did you just do?" Ahh the simple pleasures of life. 🙂