Visual Studio Shortcuts

Search

• Ctrl + T- advanced search. For example- look for a field called Policies: m Policies.
• Shift + F12- find all references
• Ctrl + K, K- place bookmark
• Ctrl + K, W- show bookmarks
• Ctrl + Tab- navigate open files, VS windows
• Ctrl + F4- close tab
• Ctrl + Q- visual studio feature/settings search
• Ctrl + I- search locally
• Ctrl + F- search with options

Move/Select

• Ctrl + ]- move to closing bracket
• Alt + Shift + ]- select current scope
• Alt + Shift + [- move to the start of upper scope
• Alt + up or down- moves a line of code up or down

Edit

• Ctrl + K, S- surround code with… For example a try catch block
• Ctrl + K, C- bulk comment
• Ctrl + K, U- bulk uncomment
• Ctrl + K, D- format code
• Hold Ctrl + Alt, click on multiple places in code and type something- simultaneously it will appear in multiple places.
• Ctrl + R, R- rename- rename code element
• F2- rename file

Other

• Ctrl + Shift + V- paste one of the last 15 copied in VS
• Shift + Alt + Enter- full screen code editor

Debug

• Shift + F11- go through the method
• F11- go into
• F10- go through
• Ctrl + Shift + F5- stop debugging, rebuild and restart debugging