Visual Studio Shortcuts- Lets make coding easier!

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Visual Studio is the leading developer tool on the market, and I would like to share with you some tips and tricks that will make this great tool even more powerful. Getting familiar with a tool is crucial to getting the most out of the tool, and development tools and IDEs are no different.
Following is a list of tips and tricks which I have aggregated from my own knowledge and different online forums.
I hope they all be useful to us. For a free trial of the new Visual Studio Team System, Click here

Keyboard Shortcuts


F5:- Debug Start
F10:- Debug Step Over
F4:- View Properties
F7:- Toggles between design and code views.
F9:- Toggles breakpoint.
F12:- Go to definition of a variable, object, or function.
Ctrl+Shift+7Ctrl+Shift+8:- Quickly navigate forward and backwards in the go to definition stack.
Shift+F12:- Find all references of a function or a variable.
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M: - Expand and collapse code outlining in the editor.
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+CCtrl+K, Ctrl+U: - Comment and uncomment line(s) of code, respectively.
Shift+Alt+Enter: - Toggles between full screen mode and normal mode.
Ctrl+I: - Incremental Search.
Ctrl+Shift+ - View AutoCloseTagOverride
Shift+F7 – View Designer
Ctrl+PgDn - ViewNextView
Ctrl+PgUp – WindowPreviousTab
CTRL + SHIFT + B - Build.BuildSolution
CTRL + F7 - Build.Compile
SHIFT + ALT + A - File.AddExistingItem
CTRL + SHIFT + A - File.AddNewItem
Ctrl+M,Ctrl+M - Will collapse the Code block, when you do the reverse (again pressing the same Key-pairs) then it will get expanded.
Ctrl+Shift+. - Auto close Tag override
Shift+F7 - View Designer
Ctrl+PgDn - Next View
Ctrl+PgUp - Previous Tab
End- Document End
Shift+End- Document EndExtend
Home- DocumentStart
Shift+Home- DocumentStartExtend

If you guys have some additional shortcuts, please feel free to add in the comments section. Thanks.

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

F11 is Debug (Step Into)

Unknown said...

Shift + F5 is the Debug Stop

I can't find where to assign a function key to the "Build" of an app. Suggestions?