Visual Studio is very Rich IDE and it provides in-numerous features that makes our day to day life easy. There are some very useful hot keys and tips which can increase our productivity significantly. Earlier I used few hot keys but recently I learned few which I found awesome which drastically reduce my time while writing/debugging/reviewing the code. So learn these and make a habit of these keys and feel super charged while writing code.
- While code review I find many time scattered and unaligned code which I hate. I use CTRL+K+D for aligning it.
- While debugging or testing the code, commenting/commenting codes are done a lot. Use CTRL+K+C/CTRL+K+U for the same.
- How do you up/down certain line of code. Select the code block and use ALT+up/down
- You have a used a lot F12 to go to Definition of class. Use CTRL – to go back.
- How do you resolve the classes by mouse click. Use CTRL+. to resolve it quickly.
- Refactoring is very important. Use CTRL+R+M for extracting a method.
- Find All References -> Use Shift + F12. Very helpful while debugging and fixing bugs.
- Want to put few lines of code in try block. Try Ctrl + K + S, it provides lot more options
- Ever tried selecting a rectangle code. Use ALT click drag.
- Lots of code in a single file. Use CTRL + M + O and CTRL + M + X in collapse/expand code groups like regions, methods etc.
- Lots of code and there are no groups. Use CTRL+M+H/CTRL+M+U
- Another super sweet. ALT+F4 to close the window.
Try using the above in your day to day coding and be more productive.
Cheers
Brij
wow nice one Thanks Brij
Thanks Ashish!! Glad that you find it useful.
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Congrats for “Article of the day”.
Thanks a lot