Popular 12 Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

In this post, we will help you boost your productivity with the help of below listed visual studio keyboard shortcuts.

Introduction

Visual Studio is a rich, integrated development environment for creating stunning applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as modern web applications and cloud services. The majority of developers are familiar with using Ctrl + Space for IntelliSense in Visual Studio.

However, the visual studio is extremely keyboard friendly, and you have keyboard shortcuts for pretty much any functionality that is exposed via the various menus.

Forget using the file menu for frequently used options. Use keyboard shortcuts and boost your productivity.

top 10 visual studio shortcuts

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Format Document

CTRL + K, CTRL + D: Formats the current document


Comment Code

CTRL + K, CTRL + C: Comments selected text
CTRL + K, CTRL + U: Un comments selected text


Go to Definition

F12: Go to definition of current code element


Enter Full Screen

SHIFT + ALT + ENTER: View Code Editor in Full Screen


Debugging

F5, F10, F11: Start the debugging, Step into & Step Over respectively.


CodeView

F7: Switches from the design view to the code view in the editor.


Change Case

CTRL + U: Changes the selected text to lower case.
CTRL + SHIFT + U: Changes the selected text to UPPER case.


Command Window

CTRL + ALT + A: Displays the Command window, which allows you to type commands that manipulate the
IDE.


Immediate Window

CTL + ALT + I: Displays the Immediate window, where you can evaluate expressions and execute
individual commands.


Window Manipulation

CTRL+ TAB: Cycles through the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) child windows, one window at a time.


Auto Snippets

Another very useful shortcut in visual studio is [Tab] + [Tab] shortcut. That is, pressing the tab twice to
help you create your code block. For instance, type “prop” and press TAB twice. It will create the
property with setter & getter.

auto snippets

This can be used for speeding up things. For instance,

  • You can type “class” and press tab twice and your “class” structure is will created within a sec.
  • You can type “if” and press tab twice and your “if-else” block will be created.
  • Similarly, you can create code blocks for “function”, “for each”, “for’ and many more.

Ring Clipboard

Very useful Shortcut – ring clipboard (CTRL+ SHIFT + V), (CTRL + – ) to go to the previous position, (ALT + Selection) for square copy and square edition.


References

Hope this post is useful and worth reading. Now you at-least know 12 visual studio keyboard shortcuts useful in your day to day coding.

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