What are some useful shortcut keys in Visual Studio?

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What are some shortcut keys you know of that make programming faster, easier, or all around more enjoyable?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '10 at 15:21

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One of my favorite items is CTRL + . to add an imports/using statement to the top of the code file.

answered Jul 27 '10 at 15:21

Mitchel Sellers

Shift + Alt + F10 is the same... – opatut Jul 27 '10 at 15:25
I didn't know that was another way of doing it. Nice! – Mitchel Sellers Jul 27 '10 at 15:27
+1 I have by far found this to be one of the most useful, hidden gems in the VS IDE. – George Johnston Jul 27 '10 at 15:58

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 14 '11 at 07:48

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I like CTRL + K + D, which formats the code in a file.

And although it's not a Visual Studio feature, I highly recommend Resharper.

edited Sep 14 '11 at 07:48

Jasper

answered Jul 27 '10 at 15:20

dcp

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 14 '11 at 07:48

Of course there is Intelli-Sense, it opens automatically or when you hit Ctrl + Space. Select the variable / class / function or whatever it shows you and hit Enter or Tab to insert it.
Code snippets, also provided by the Intelli-Sense list insert code so you do not need to type everything again. Etc. type "prop" and double hit Tab.
Ctrl + K, Ctrl + D to format your total file so it looks cleaner.
#region / #endregion to group your code and allow you to hide the whole region

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 14 '11 at 07:48

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Couple of my favorites:

CTRL + TAB -- moves you between open code pages
SHIFT + CTRL + F -- allows you to do a search across the entire solution (as sometimes find all references does not work when your solutions get huge)
SHIFT + DELETE -- allows you to remove an entire line from your code without highlighting it.

edited Sep 14 '11 at 07:48

Jasper

answered Jul 27 '10 at 15:20

Doug

SHIFT + DELETE is cut not delete entire line (just thought I clear that) – Ahmad Hajou Dec 11 '14 at 10:14

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