Visual Studio multiple copy and paste

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While editing and fixing up code I have thought that sometimes it would be nice to be able to paste more than one thing at a time. For instance I was fixing up some WCF Rest code and I wanted to paste "Xml" sometimes and "Json" other times. These are easy to type, but a keyboard shortcut is much easier

Thus, is it possible to have multiple different items in the copy memory and then to paste them individually?

Use a piece of software called `ditto-cp` - clipboard on steroids; history, direct quick paste of 10 things, network sharing of clipboard.. — Caius Jard, Sep 06 '21 at 20:00

score 66 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '11 at 21:57

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Use CTRL-Shift-V multiple times (until you have the text you want)

answered Mar 04 '11 at 21:57

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I have VS 2008. Doesn't seem to work. Did you have to re-assign your shortcut keys? – Sundar Mar 04 '11 at 22:17
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@Sundar Ctrl+Shift+Ins in my copy of VS2008. It's present since VS 2003: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa301782%28VS.71%29.aspx – Vitor Py Mar 04 '11 at 23:47
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Not sure if that was an intentional typo @lsalamon, but amusing nonetheless. – Michael12345 Jul 28 '17 at 04:37
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So after spending near 20 years of my life with VS, I learned something new today. – dotNET Aug 10 '17 at 19:21

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '13 at 18:28

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For the ones who are looking for it, as I was. The name of the action you want to perform is Edit.CycleClipboardRing. In my VS2008, it was assigned to the keys Ctrl+Shift+Insert. Just changed to Ctrl+Shift+V in Tools->Options...->Keyboard.

answered Jun 03 '13 at 18:28

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '11 at 23:42

When there is text that I want to repeatedly enter in a source file, I type it once, select it and drag and drop it to the Toolbox tool window (you can even rename the snippet name if you want).

Then when I want to use it, I drag and drop it from the toolbox tool window to the source file.

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 04 '11 at 23:03

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I've been using Clipx for years. You can access your older clipboard items with ctrl-shift-v.

Plus this works with all programs: you can copy your source snippets in notepad or outlook.

answered Mar 04 '11 at 23:03

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 09 '20 at 06:52

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I prefer using FlyCut. It shows the last 30 results and app name as well from where you've copied the content. There's an option for handling copy from password fields.

answered May 09 '20 at 06:52

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Visual Studio multiple copy and paste

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