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Visual Studio Short Keys

June 10th, 2009 Jigish Thakar Leave a comment Go to comments

Efficient programmers use short keys in IDE like Visual Studio. This saves time and in many cases makes the work run faster also. I also love short keys. They are smart! And there also go some tricks that help make your visual studio days a party! I have listed here some short cuts and some tips with the hope that this will be helpful to you all.

Visual Studio Short-cuts

  1. Ctrl+F5 to run the website without debugging. F5 only will run the website in debugging mode.
  2. Stop Debugging: Shift+F5
  3. Restart Debugging: Ctrl+Shift+F5
  4. Break All: Ctrl+Alt+Break
  5. F11 to debug line by line downwards from the toggle point. This works with F10 also. In fact you can see F10 assigned for this task. See Debug menu in the visual studio.
  6. F9 to toggle a break point.
  7. To delete all the break points at once: Ctrl+Shift+F9. If you only wish to disable the break points you can go down the Debug menu.
  8. Ctrl+S to save the current document. Ctrl+Shift+S to save all the documents at once.
  9. Print a document directly from the visual studio? Press Ctrl+P. This will bring the print dialog.
  10. Ctrl+F to find a text. A find dialog will be displayed. Then you are left with a number of options.
  11. Ctrl+H or Ctrl+Shift+H for find and replace.
  12. Ctrl+G to go to the specific line number in the current document.
  13. Open the web browser right from within the visual studio? Press Ctrl+Alt+R.
  14. Irritated switching back and forth the design view and code behind page of a file? Use F7 to navigate back and forth the files of a page.
  15. Press F4 to view the properties window for a control from the design page.
  16. To view the server explorer: Ctrl+S
  17. To view the solution explorer: Ctrl+Shift+L
  18. To view the output window: Ctrl+Alt+O
  19. To view the toolbox: Ctrl+Alt+X
  20. Press Shift+Alt+Enter to view/undo full screen.
  21. Press Ctrl+O to open a document from the project folder.
  22. Ctrl+F11 to view disassembly: the machine level code!

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  1. Sangam Uprety
    June 23rd, 2009 at 15:49 | #1
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    Hi Jigish.
    Thank you for referencing and giving space for my post. And much thanks for spreading the tips and tricks. Almost all IDE users love short-keys. This listing is also another example! I would be collecting more short cuts. You can comment on the post to spread short keys you have learned or you can even contact me from my site’s Contact navigation tab.

    Thank you. Happy Programming!

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