Is there a hotkey in Visual Studio to open the member drop down list?

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In Visual Studio there is a drop down list in the top right hand corner that you can use to navigate to the various members in the class. Does anyone know if there is a hot key to open this ddl?

Donut · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-03T03:04:46.430

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I think you're looking for Ctrl + F2, which moves the cursor to the navigation bar at the top of a code view. From there, you can press Tab to move the cursor over to the member list.

For this (and pretty much every other Visual Studio hotkey/shortcut key combination), see here.

edited Feb 03 '14 at 03:04

answered Sep 21 '09 at 14:01

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Why they don't have resharper-like alt-\ which lets you search the member list quickly I can't imagine. Ctrl-F2 tab tab sucks and it's not even a decent search. – JohnOpincar Sep 23 '15 at 14:23
This indeed quite a terrible omission. Couple this with VS's support for programmable user-macros being taken away in previous versions, you can't even patch your way around this yourself. – Jostein Kjønigsen Sep 28 '15 at 09:24
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@JohnOpincar They do now, see my answer. – Cristian Diaconescu Jun 21 '19 at 09:50

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 21 '19 at 09:50

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Visual Studio 2017+: They now support Resharper-like shortcuts. They work pretty well, too.

Ctrl+T - 'Go to All' (class/member/file), type m MyProp for members only
Alt+\ - 'Go to Member in current file'

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Ctrl+,(Global) is also used by 'Edit.GoToAll' Is this just me? Anyway, Thanks! – Brian Hong Apr 14 '21 at 15:02
In Visual Studio 2022, it seems Alt + \ searches members in the entire solution instead of current file – Michael Fulton Jul 28 '23 at 18:23

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 06 '11 at 19:30

Using VS 2008, I still don't know how to get directly to the Members dropdown which is what I want. But, the key bindings will be different for everyone. The command you want to search for under Options > Keyboard > Show commands containing: is Window.MoveToNavigationBar.

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 10 '18 at 09:36

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Assuming you are using the default keybindings packaged with Visual Studio, CTRL+F2 will focus the top-right drop-down list, and you can then navigate members by pressing TAB and using the arrow keys.

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answered Sep 21 '09 at 14:04

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 10 '18 at 09:49

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In my install of VS 2013, this is called Window.MoveToNaviationBar and is bound to Ctrl+F8. This is visual C++ settings.

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 21 '09 at 14:04

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Use Ctrl + F2 to get up there, then a click on Tab will get you to the member list instead of the object list.

answered Sep 21 '09 at 14:04

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Is there a hotkey in Visual Studio to open the member drop down list?

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