My new favourite keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio
On the subject of
favourites I thought I'd share this little nugget with you that I got from a customer recently.
CTRL+K, CTRL+D (press one combination immediately followed by the other)
Not the easiest shortcut to remember but worth the investment - it reformats your code according to your preferences.
I used to achieve this by deleting and re-inserting closing braces '}' which causes the same event. Now I can do it without leaping about my source file. And the *best* thing about this keyboard shortcut is that it works in most file types! Yes! Including .xaml and .aspx.
Hooorah!
What's your favourite little-known tip for Visual Studio?
Post By
Josh Twist
11:11
26 May 2009
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Posted by
Tomas Restrepo
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26 May 2009
14:51
Notice that you can also use Ctrl+K,Ctrl+F in many cases to format just the selected text.
Posted by
FallenGameR
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27 May 2009
01:00
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+O - collapse all regions
Ctrl+. - open smart tag (for automatic namespace adding for example)
Ctrl+Up/Down - scroll code
Posted by
R2D2
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12 Jun 2009
17:11
My favourite shortcut is this...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E5F902A8-5BB5-4CC6-907E-472809749973&displaylang=enEnjoy!
Posted by
jsimas
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28 Jun 2009
12:43
A new one for me was Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L which expands all the folded code in a file.
Funny that both this post and the c# readonly post talk about stuff that is very natural and prevalent if you use Resharper.