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Favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts

I am a big fan of shortcuts in VS2008, it can save a lot of time and keep your fingers on the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Recently I downloaded the entire list of keyboard shortcuts for VS 2008 and went through them all finding my favourites.

Currently here are the top one’s I use:

1. Shift + DEL: Deletes an entire line
2. Ctrl + Shift + F10: Brings up the Using / Resolution box
3. cw[tabx2]: Inserts Console.Writeline code
4. ctor[tabx2]: Inserts default constructor code

What other ones do people know that saves time / are actually useful?

Answer 1

F12 Jump to definition

SHIFT + F12Find al references

CTRL + MINUS Jump back to previous cursor location

CTRL + SHIFT + MINUS Jump forward to last cursor location

CTRL + K , C Comment out currently selected code

CTRL + K , U Uncomment currently selected code

CTRL + K , F Format selected code

CTRL + K , D Format document

F5 Start Debugging

F6 Build Solution

F7 Switch to code view

Shift+ F7 Switch to design view

These are the ones I use most.

PS. Microsoft released keybinding posters for Visual Studio.

• VS C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster

• VS C# 2008 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster