Visual Studio is one of the best IDE for software developers and mostly preferred by C#,.NET developers, so in this article, I have provided useful shortcuts to be used in Visual Studio like comments shortcut, collapse or expand code region etc.
Comment code shortcut in Visual Studio
"Ctrl-K, Ctrl-C", to comment out the current selected lines in Visual Studio, it is one of the widely used shortcuts, since we keep commenting out code while code.
Take a look the below image, which shows how code is commented and then uncommented using Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts
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If you can't remember the shortcut, you can always use the "Edit" menu. Just go to "Edit -> Advanced" and select "Comment Selection" or "UnComment Selection"
Comment multiple lines of code
In Visual Studio: Ctrl+K+C will comment, Ctrl+K+U Will uncomment multiple lines of selected code at once.
Uncomment code block shortcut
You can use "Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U" to uncomment the selected code
Collapse all code regions
If you are working with Visual Studio from quite some time, then you must have seen there is "+" ( when code is collapsed) and "-" ( when code is alread expanded) sign, in your code which let's you expand or collapse your classes/methods code, you can collapse all the regions of the file by clicking "Ctrl+M, Ctrl+O" in Visual Studio.
Edit Multiple Lines at Once
Yes, you can type on multiple lines at once using Visual Studio, here is the shortcut of this : Shift + Alt + ↑ / ↓ (use up arrow to select upper code lines from current selected line, and down arraow to select lower code lines)
In Visual Studio 2019 while holding down "Ctrl + Alt + ↑ / ↓", you can edit multiple lines
Build Solution
"Ctrl+Shift+B" shortcut will build your solution, which is widely used by C#/.NET developers
Open Solution Explorer
Click "Ctrl+W, Cltrl+S" to open solution explorer.
Read: How to debug in visual studio? (Tutorial to debug C# code)
Ctrl+K+S to automatically add condition using shortcut
This is really excellent and loving way to add condition around the code, click "Ctrl+K+S", then you will see condition content menu, select any condition from that, here is the demo
Move Code lines Up or Down
This is another interesting shortcut key, using which you can move current line of code, up or down, use "Alt+ ↑ / ↓" to do this
Delete a line without cutting it (so not removing what is in Clipboard)
Well, this one is interesting shortcut, suppose you want to delete a line for that there is a shortcut "Shift+Del" to delete a line, but what if you want to delete the line without modifying what is in the clipboard.
Then you can delete a line using Ctrl + Shift + L without cutting it
Find in Files (Ctrl + Shift +F)
You might need this shortcut very often, basically "Ctrl + Shift +F" open new dialog to search a term in Files.
You can even replace values if needed.
Auto Re-Format current file (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D)
Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D : Allows you to automatically re-format the current selected document.
Search Selected Code (Ctrl+F)
Ctrl+F allow you to search for the current selected code, while Ctrl+Shift+F allows you to search complete solution
Close Current Tab (Ctrl+F4)
Use Ctrl+F4 to close the current Selected tab (file)
Close Visual Studio (Alt+f4)
You can close Visual Studio Completly by clicking Alt+f4
Open Team Explorer (Ctrl+')
To open team explorer home page click: Ctrl + '
Insert blank line above cursor (Ctrl+Enter)
Simplet click "Ctrl+Enter" to insert blank line above current cursor position
You can also use "Ctrl+Shift+Enter" to add blank line below the current cursor position.
Creating Custom Shortcuts in Visual Studio 2017/2019
You can also create your custom Shortcuts in Visual Studio as per you needs, to do this, follow these steps:
- Go to Tools -> Options
- Select "Keyboard" from "Envirnoment"
- Search for command, for example, i want to create shortcut for closing solution then I will search and select "File.CloseSolution"
- Click inside textbox of "Press shortcuts keys" and specify your combination's key. For example, click "Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+Space"
- Click "Assign" and then ok.
- Now you can use the new shortcut.
I will keep updating it in future, but if you have any interesting and useful VS shortcut key in mind, feel free to comment it down below.
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