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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Visual Studio Shortcuts


Navigation
Ctrl + ]  Moves the cursor to the matching Closing or Opening brace
Ctrl + hyphen Moves cursor to its previous position
Shift + F7 Switch between the Design View and Source View
Ctrl + Tab Displays the all open files in VS
Ctrl + Shift + F Find
F3 Search Again or continue search


Editing
Ctrl + k + c Comment a selected line or all selected lines of code 
Ctrl + k + u  Uncomment a selected line or all selected lines of code
Ctrl + x, Ctrl + c, Ctrl + v  Cut, Copy, Paste


Code Related
Ctrl +SpaceBar Complete word if exist
Tab (Twice) Inserts Code snippet, eg type while and press Tab twice, or type prop and press Tab twice
Ctrl + Period (.) Shows SmartTag menu
F5 Start or run the application 
F6 or Ctrl + Shift + B Build the solution  Insert or remove breakpoint
F9 Insert or remove breakpoint
Ctrl + S Save 
Ctrl + Alt + L  Open Solution Explorer