As a hardcore developer I found that typing is easy to me then using mouse. Mouse
is an obstacle. Taking hands off the keyboard is time consuning. It takes me out
of comfort zone. I like to use keyboard where ever possible and efficient. Thanks
to the developers of Visual studio 2005, they provided keyboard shortcuts to the
most frequest tasks.
Though the
use of named commands is always recommended instead of keyboard shortcuts.
But I found that these key strokes are most common and no one reassign these to
custome actions. Its safe to get used to these shortcuts.
Here is a list of my favourite shortcusts.
Tool Boxes And Windows
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CTRL+ALT+L: View Solution Explorer. I use Auto Hide for all of my tool
windows to maximize screen real estate. Whenever I need to open the Solution Explorer,
it’s just a shortcut away.
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CTRL+ALT+X: Toolbox Window
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CTRL+ALT+O: Output Window
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CTRL+\, E: Error List Window
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CTRL+\, T: Task List Window
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F7: Toggle between Designer and Source views.
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CTRL+PgDn: Toggle between Design and Source View in HTML editor.
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SHIFT+ALT+Enter: Toggle full screen mode. This is especially useful if
you have a small monitor. Since I upgraded to dual 17? monitors, I no longer needed
to use full screen mode.
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CTRL+SHIFT+A: Add New Item Window
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ALT+F+F: Recent Files List
Building, Running And Debugging
F10 : Debug - Step over.
F5: debug - Start
F11: debug - Step into
SHIFT+F11: Debug - step out
CTRL+F10: Debug - run to cursor
F9: Toggle Breakpoint
CTRL+SHIF+B: Build Solution. Related shortcuts:
ALT+B, U: Build selected Project
ALT+B, R: Rebuild Solution
Code Window
CTRL+D or CTRL+/: Find combo
CTRL+M, O: Collapse to Definitions.
CTRL+M, M: Toggle Outline Expension. Collapsed will become expanded and
expanded will become collapsed.
CTRL+K, CTRL+C: Comment block.
CTRL+K, CTRL-U: Uncomment selected block
CTRL+-: Go back to the previous location in the navigation history.
CTRL+SHIFT+-: Go to the next location in the navigation history.
CTRL++: Select from last mouse pointer position to current mouse pointer
position.
CTRL+ALT+Down Arrow: Show dropdown of currently open files. Type the first
few letters of the file you want to select.
CTRL+K, D: Format code.
CTRL+L: Delete entire line.
CTRL+G: Go to line number. This is useful when you are looking at an exception
stack trace and want to go to the offending line number.
CTRL+K, X: Insert "surrounds with" code snippet.
CTRL+K, K: Toggle bookmark.
CTRL+K, N: Next bookmark.
CTRL+K, P: Previous bookmark.
CTRL+K, L: Clear bookmark.
CTRL+K, I: Quick Info
F12: Go to definition of a variable, object, or function.
SHIFT+F12: Find all references of a function or variable.
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