Say you need to paste a chunk of XML (or WKT) into Visual Studio as a string literal (for your unit tests, or what not). How would you do it? In C# string literals can be represented in two ways: C# supports two forms of string literals: regular string literals and verbatim string literals. A regular string literal consists of zero or more characters enclosed in double quotes, as in "hello", and may include both simple escape sequences (such as \t for the tab character) and hexadecimal and Unicode escape sequences. ...

Here is something I wish I'd known years ago - you can make the "View Source" action default when you double click on a WinForm control. Here's how: Right click any Form/UserControl file, and choose Open With… Select CSharp Editor, then press Set as Default ???? Profit! That's it! Now you won't break the keyboard when you accidentally double click on your MainForm.cs file.