Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts Visual Studio is all about developer productivity. To help developers be more efficient and productive, Visual Studio has built-in keyboard shortcuts into the product for most of the functions normally found through the user interface – just like CTRL+C for copy. To help you take advantage of these shortcuts, learn some sweet keyboard shortcuts. With something new for everyone, these keyboard shortcuts will give you valuable to start using right away, increase your productivity, and make you wonder how you servived all this time without them. Using keyboard shortcuts is the best way to get things done faster in Visual Studio. Key Combination

Use

Description

CTRL+ALT+L

View Solution Explorer

Use Auto Hide for all tool windows to maximize screen real estate. Whenever you need to open the Solution Explorer, it’s just a shortcut away.

CTRL+ALT+X

View ToolBox

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CTRL+ALT+O

View Output

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CTRL+\, then press View Error List E

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CTRL+\, then press View Task List T

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F4

View Property Window

Select the control, then press F4 to view property window.

CTRL+PgDn or CTRL+PgUp

Design View to Source View and vice-versa

Toggle between design and source view in HTML editor.

SHIFT+F7

Design View to Source View and vice-versa

F7

Design or Source Toggle from designer view to code view. View to Code View

SHIFT+F7

Code View to Design View

Toggle from code view to designer view.

F5

Start Debugging

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CTRL+F5

Start Without Debugging

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F10

Debug

Step over

F11

Debug

Step into

SHIFT+F11

Debug

Step out

CTRL+F10

Debug

Run to cursor

F9

Toggle Breakpoint .

CTRL+M, then press O

Collapse to Definitions.

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CTRL+K, then CTRL+C

Comment selected Block

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CTRL+K, then CTRL+U

Uncomment selected block

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CTRL+-

Go back to the previous location in . the navigation history

F6

Build Solution

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SHIFT+F6

Build Website

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ATL+B, then R

Rebuild Solution

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CTRL+L

Deletes Entire Line .

CTRL+G

GO to the Line Number

Toggle between design and source view in HTML editor.

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SHIFT+ATL+Enter

Toggle Full Screen . Mode

CTRL+Space

Invoke the Intellisense List

Invokes the intellisence list where cursor pointed.