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30 Favorite Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

19 points by kadhinn 16y ago

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bunglebooz 16y ago
I always use the Ctrl + Period (.) and Ctrl + Hyphen (-)
unwind 16y ago
It's note to note that these seem to be implemented "ergonomically" rather than just by character. On US keyboards, the opening bracket [ is easily available, while on e.g. Swedish keymaps you also need to press the Alt Gr key to get [ (it's at Alt Gr + 8). Still, in Visual Studio the same physical key that is [ on US keyboards works as listed in this article, i.e. Control + å matches brackets. Nice!
- bad_user 16y ago
  I just use the US layout, and when I press Right-Alt it switches to my native language's layout (which I can use efficiently because I can touch-type). Just embrace English as the lingua franca of programming and you'll be better off.
  - unwind 16y ago
    Heh. I've certainly embraced that, for a good number of years. But that doesn't mean I need to use an English keymap, although I did fight that battle for a great while back on the Amiga, 15+ years ago. :)
yread 16y ago
Also of interest are: Ctrl + K, D - Formats document Ctrl + K, X - Opens snippet picker Ctrl + Shift V - Pastes text from the Clipboard ring (did you know that Visual studio has clipboard ring? :) Ctrl + R, M - Extracts method F2 - rename identifier (and its references)
- spoiledtechie 16y ago
  the clipboard ring doesn't seem to work too well.
  - johns 16y ago
    Really? Do you have some other clipboard manager installed? I never have any problems with it. Just keep hitting the shortcut over and over again to cycle through them. Sadly they removed the old toolbar that showed you everything on the ring.
gokhan 16y ago
Favorite, unless you use ReSharper. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/ReSharper25DefaultKeymap.pdf http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/ReSharper25...
giu 16y ago
My favorite keyboard shortcuts: - CTRL + HYPHEN(-) for navigating backwards - CTRL + SHIFT + HYPHEN(-) for navigating forwards - CTRL + PERIOD(.) shows the smart tag, because almost nobody can hit that small rectangle with the mouse - CTRL + SHIFT + F, Find in Files. I use this one quite often (mostly for a search in the entire solution); it's very fast and displays all the results in a separate window - SHIFT + F12 (or CTRL + K, R) finds all references On a sidenote: I've created a reference card including most of the VS keyboard shortcuts mentioned in the article and some more (I'm using it at work; looks pretty good printed). Too bad I didn't upload it yet. Looks like I'm going to publish it this evening on my journal.
- spoiledtechie 16y ago
  please do publish it...
  - giu 16y ago
    In case somebody's still interested in the cheat sheet, I just published it on my journal: http://giu.me/09-06-2010-visual-studio-2008-and-2010-default-key-bindings-simplified-reference-card-cheat-sheet.html http://giu.me/09-06-2010-visual-studio-2008-and-2010-default... Google viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiu.me%2Ffile%2FVisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSimplifiedReferenceCard.pdf http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiu.me%2Ffile... Direct link (PDF): http://giu.me/file/VisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSimplifiedReferenceCard.pdf http://giu.me/file/VisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSim... @spoiledtechie I've sent you the links via mail ;)
  - johns 16y ago
    This needs a little updating, but I've maintained this page forever: http://john-sheehan.com/blog/net-cheat-sheets http://john-sheehan.com/blog/net-cheat-sheets
pcestrada 16y ago
ALT-F4 - close application immediately
rodh257 16y ago
Shift + Delete is my favourite. It cuts the current line, which I use as an easy way to delete a whole line at a time.
bmahloch 16y ago
For Unit Tests CTRL + R + T - debugs the current test. I always think to myself CTRL + Run + Test.
jasonkester 16y ago
It's interesting to see how many of the things that you used to only be able to do with ReSharper are now standard VS.NET features. Strange though that Microsoft didn't keep the ReSharper keyboard shortcuts when they adopted the features, especially since the R# ones are often a lot more intuitive. CTRL+/ (and SHIFT+CTRL+/) to comment (and block comment) selections, for instance is so intuitive that you discover it by accident. Same with the variants on SHIFT+CTRL+SPACE for various smart-completion tasks. CTRL+. (VS.NET's shortcut for smart completion) is not something I'd ever think to try unless I already knew it.
ecaradec 16y ago
"CTRL + :" then "of" -> focus the command line window then open file by name with completion. Great for navigating among files.
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19 points by kadhinn 16y ago

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bunglebooz 16y ago

I always use the Ctrl + Period (.) and Ctrl + Hyphen (-)

unwind 16y ago

It's note to note that these seem to be implemented "ergonomically" rather than just by character. On US keyboards, the opening bracket [ is easily available, while on e.g. Swedish keymaps you also need to press the Alt Gr key to get [ (it's at Alt Gr + 8). Still, in Visual Studio the same physical key that is [ on US keyboards works as listed in this article, i.e. Control + å matches brackets. Nice!

bad_user 16y ago
I just use the US layout, and when I press Right-Alt it switches to my native language's layout (which I can use efficiently because I can touch-type). Just embrace English as the lingua franca of programming and you'll be better off.
- unwind 16y ago
  Heh. I've certainly embraced that, for a good number of years. But that doesn't mean I need to use an English keymap, although I did fight that battle for a great while back on the Amiga, 15+ years ago. :)

yread 16y ago

Also of interest are: Ctrl + K, D - Formats document Ctrl + K, X - Opens snippet picker Ctrl + Shift V - Pastes text from the Clipboard ring (did you know that Visual studio has clipboard ring? :) Ctrl + R, M - Extracts method F2 - rename identifier (and its references)

spoiledtechie 16y ago
the clipboard ring doesn't seem to work too well.
- johns 16y ago
  Really? Do you have some other clipboard manager installed? I never have any problems with it. Just keep hitting the shortcut over and over again to cycle through them. Sadly they removed the old toolbar that showed you everything on the ring.

gokhan 16y ago

Favorite, unless you use ReSharper. http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/ReSharper25DefaultKeymap.pdf http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/ReSharper25...

giu 16y ago

My favorite keyboard shortcuts: - CTRL + HYPHEN(-) for navigating backwards - CTRL + SHIFT + HYPHEN(-) for navigating forwards - CTRL + PERIOD(.) shows the smart tag, because almost nobody can hit that small rectangle with the mouse - CTRL + SHIFT + F, Find in Files. I use this one quite often (mostly for a search in the entire solution); it's very fast and displays all the results in a separate window - SHIFT + F12 (or CTRL + K, R) finds all references On a sidenote: I've created a reference card including most of the VS keyboard shortcuts mentioned in the article and some more (I'm using it at work; looks pretty good printed). Too bad I didn't upload it yet. Looks like I'm going to publish it this evening on my journal.

spoiledtechie 16y ago
please do publish it...
- giu 16y ago
  In case somebody's still interested in the cheat sheet, I just published it on my journal: http://giu.me/09-06-2010-visual-studio-2008-and-2010-default-key-bindings-simplified-reference-card-cheat-sheet.html http://giu.me/09-06-2010-visual-studio-2008-and-2010-default... Google viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiu.me%2Ffile%2FVisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSimplifiedReferenceCard.pdf http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiu.me%2Ffile... Direct link (PDF): http://giu.me/file/VisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSimplifiedReferenceCard.pdf http://giu.me/file/VisualStudio20082010DefaultKeyBindingsSim... @spoiledtechie I've sent you the links via mail ;)
- johns 16y ago
  This needs a little updating, but I've maintained this page forever: http://john-sheehan.com/blog/net-cheat-sheets http://john-sheehan.com/blog/net-cheat-sheets

pcestrada 16y ago

ALT-F4 - close application immediately

rodh257 16y ago

Shift + Delete is my favourite. It cuts the current line, which I use as an easy way to delete a whole line at a time.

bmahloch 16y ago

For Unit Tests CTRL + R + T - debugs the current test. I always think to myself CTRL + Run + Test.

jasonkester 16y ago

It's interesting to see how many of the things that you used to only be able to do with ReSharper are now standard VS.NET features. Strange though that Microsoft didn't keep the ReSharper keyboard shortcuts when they adopted the features, especially since the R# ones are often a lot more intuitive. CTRL+/ (and SHIFT+CTRL+/) to comment (and block comment) selections, for instance is so intuitive that you discover it by accident. Same with the variants on SHIFT+CTRL+SPACE for various smart-completion tasks. CTRL+. (VS.NET's shortcut for smart completion) is not something I'd ever think to try unless I already knew it.

ecaradec 16y ago

"CTRL + :" then "of" -> focus the command line window then open file by name with completion. Great for navigating among files.

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