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Shortcuts to work with Visual Studio

Posted Date: 27-Jun-2012	Category: Visual Studio
Author: Somasekar N	Member Level: Gold	Points: 15

There are many shortcuts in Visual studio, that makes work easier to the .NET programmers. Below are some of them for editing, intellisense, debugging, navigation between different views, windows, snippets and to build programs in a solution.

Editing

Collapses existing regions view of the types and members (CTRL + M + O)
Removes all outlining information in the document. (CTRL + M + P)
selected collapsed region are Toggled. (CTRL + M + M)
Inserts an element in the beginning of current line or currently selected lines. (CTRL + K + C)
Removes an element in the beginning of current line or currently selected lines. (CTRL + K + U)
Formats current document as per indentation and code formatting specified on the Formatting pane in Tools-> Options -> Text Editor -> C#. (CTRL + K + D)
Pastes Clipboard ring text to the cursor location in a file. Further using the shortcut key iterates Clipboard ring to the end. (CTRL + SHIFT + V)
Displays the smart tag menu options.(CTRL + .)

Intellisense

Displays the smart tag menu options. (CTRL + K + I)
Visible completion list becomes transparent. (CTRL)

Debugging

Launches Debug Mode (F5)
Launches without Debug Mode (CTRL + F5)
Sets or removes a breakpoint in current line (F9)
Removes all breakpoints (CTRL + SHIFT + F9)

Navigation

Displays references for the symbol selected (CTRL + K + R)
Moves the cursor to the matching brace in the source (CTRL + ])
Navigates to the code declaration of the selected symbol (F12)
Moves to the previously browsed code line (CTRL + -)
Displays the Code view of selected item (F7)
Switches to Design view from Source view (SHIFT + F7)
Switches to Source view from in Design view (SHIFT + F7)
Displays the Find and Replace dialog box (CTRL + F)
To get the Go To Line dialog box (CTRL + G)

Window

To display Class window (CTRL + W + C)
To display Class Definition window (CTRL + W + D)
To display the window Error List (CTRL + W + E)
To get the Object Browser (CTRL + W + J)
Displays Solution Explorer, with projects and files in the current solution (CTRL + W + S)
Displays the window Task List (CTRL + W + T)
Closes the tools window (SHIFT + ESC)
To close the current tab (CTRL + F4)
Displays IDE Navigator and selectes the first window (CTRL + TAB)

Snippets

Class (class | TAB | TAB)
Constructor (ctor | TAB | TAB)
Windows - Message Box (mbox | TAB |TAB)
Console – WriteLine (cw | TAB | TAB)
Property – (prop | TAB | TAB)
To get more snippets ( CTRL + K + X)

Build

To Build all projects in a solution (F6 / CTRL + SHIFT + B)
To Build the selected project and its dependencies (SHIFT + F6)

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