Tips for Moving from VS.NET to Xcode

Question

After developing in VS.NET for many years, I'm starting to do some Xcode development and I'm very much hard-wired to the VS.NET way of doing things.

I'm not looking for a debate about which environment is better, but some productivity tips when moving from one to the other.

Does anyone have tips, keyboard settings, etc that they found useful when first moving from VS.NET to Xcode?

Answer 1

Spend some time learning Xcode's keyboard shortcuts. Every time you want to do something like build your project, open the breakpoints window, etc, once you find it in the menu make a note of the keyboard shortcut and start using that instead.

Also, note the Switch to Header/Source File command in the view menu. This lets you jump from the .h you're currently viewing to the .m file and vica versa. The default shortcut is command-option-up arrow. This is probably my most frequently used shortcut.

Back and Forward are similarly command-option-left arrow and command-option-right arrow, respectively.