One not-so-secret developer productivity technique is copying code. It's rare that I manually type in all of the required code for a program when it's faster and easier to grab bits of other projects that are already written, paste them into my new project, and modify them to get things working. Most .NET developers know that one of the best sources for code snippets is the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) on the Microsoft Web site (http://msdn.microsoft.com). Although some MSDN content—...