See http://www.dotnet2themax.com/ProgrammingVB2005.aspx for a short summary this book.

Some of my highlights include:

"The most important things in life can't be rendered as a sequence of bytes, regardless of the programming language you're using."

Code samples: http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/0-7356-2183-7/

Part I

StructLayout - never used it, but it's interesting

The Global keyword - e.g. Global.System.Windows.Forms

Ctrl+Shift+V - IDE clipboard ring

Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P - the method syntax is pasted into the editor window

Ctrl+L - copy *line* to clipboard

Ctrl+Shift+L - delete current line

Alt+Shift+T - transpose lines

Ctrl+C - copies the entire line when no text is selected

http://ndoc.sourceforge.net - produces documentation

Ctrl+I - forward incremental search (non-hidden text!)

{:q}(.|\n)#\1 - regular expression that searches for quoted strings that appeare twice in the source file.

Dim {;i} As (.|\n)#<\1> - highlights the code between the declaration of a variable and its first use

Ctrl+F3 - start a forward search for the text that is currently selected

Ctrl+K,Ctrl+K - create a bookmark

Ctrl+K,Ctrl+W - display list of bookmarks

Ctrl+K,Ctrl+H - create a shortcut to current location

?+Tab - invoke code snippets

Ctrl+K,Ctrl+B - open code snippets

http://www.deveexpress.com/vbrefactor - adds refactoring to the IDE