Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Hey all,

a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.

Here is another list of 5 Shortcuts I have picked up along the way.

1. CTRL + SHIFT + 8/7: In case you haven’t knew there is a “Go to Definitions Stack” and every time you click F12 it stores where you went inside that stack. Hitting CTRL +  SHIFT + 8 goes “Back” in the stack and CTRL +  SHIFT + 7 goes forward.
2. F8: I hope all of you are using the CTRL + “-“ to go back to the location you were (after hitting F12 for example). F8 is the opposite to that action it will take you forward. It is the same as CTRL + SHIFT + “-“.
3. SHIFT + F12: Having the marker on top of anything and clicking SHIFT + F12 will search the entire solution for that object and open up the find symbol window:
   
4. CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow: This is my favorite. You all know the  CTRL + TAB feature of Visual studio:
   
   We have all used it to switch between open files, the problem is that there is no order in the files, although sometime it looks alphabetical it isn’t Clicking CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow is like clicking the little arrow on the upper right corner of the text editor so the result is this:
    
   And the best this is that it is ordered the same as the tabs on top of the text editor.
5. CTRL + K + X: This is also a useful one, Hitting CTRL + K + X will open up the insert snippet window and allow you to select the snippets you want to use:
   

That’s all for now, on my next post I will show some CodeRush Express Shortcuts.

Amit