The title of this post really says it all, but in case you didn’t know: You can use the Immediate Window at design time. The cool thing is that now you’re able to try out some code without firing up the debugger – what a huge time saver!
And the funny thing is that this little gem was hidden inside a document on what the vshost file that gets generated in your bin folder does.
Software development can be such a tricky beast. I’ve been developing in .NET for a little more than 3 years, and not once in that period of time have I seen anyone use the immediate window outside of run-time debugging.
It just goes to show you that we should really take the time to learn our tools. I’m sure there are a ton of other gems that only a few people know about, although there are certain websites that go a long way to helping one find all the hidden features.