My Favorite Shortcuts

Using mouse is inefficient and slow - for detailed explanation go here

These are my favorite (those I actually use) shortcuts.

[Ed. - I am updating it constantly as I find more useful shortcuts I actually use] 

  • Visual Studio
    • Ctrl + Shift + B - build
    • Ctrl + Tab - switching between open files
    • Ctrl + Shift + F - find in files (actually FindStr inside Visual Studio)
    • Ctrl + KK - bookmarking
    • Ctrl + KW - show bookmarks windows
    • Ctrl + Pg UP/Pg Dn - switch between ASPX markup and design view
    • Ctrl + i - incremental search, try it - very cool. Thanks, Memi, for sharing
  • Outlook
    • Ctrl + Shift + M - new email
    • Ctrl + Shift + S - new post to folder (posts are my tool of trade to manage my pipeline - My Pipeline Is My Inbox)
    • Ctrl + 1 - emails
    • Ctrl + 2 - calendar
    • Ctrl + try other numbers...
    • Ctrl + R - reply
    • Ctrl + Shift + R - reply all
    • Ctrl + F - forward mail item
    • Ctrl + Enter - send email
  • Word
    • Ctrl + Shift + C - copy style
    • Ctrl + Shift + V - paste style
    • Ctrl + ] - enlarge font size
    • Ctrl + [ - decrease font size
    • Shift + F5 - go to last edited location
    • F4 - repeat last action, very handy when refactoring
  • Windows
    • Windows + R - bring up "Run" dialog.
    • Ctrl + Shift + Esc - bring up task manager
    • Windows + E - run explorer
  • Notepad
    • Ctrl + G - got to line number, avail also in other products
    • Ctrl + H - Find/Replace
  • Windows Explorer
    • F2 - rename file/folder
    • Shift + Delete - unrecoverable delete of item (actually this one does unrecoverable delete - SDelete)
  • Internet Explorer
    • Type domain name and then Ctrl + Enter - wraps domain with "http://www." ... ".com"
  • The all time winner
    • Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V

[Ed. - the following added from Chris online]

Visual Basic Shortcuts poster

Visual C# Shortcuts poster

Visual C++ Shortcuts poster

What are yours?

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Published 29 April 07 09:28 by alikl
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# MItch Wheat said on April 30, 2007 12:00 AM:

Hi Alik

I'm guessing you saw these already: http://mitch-wheat.blogspot.com/2007/01/vs2005-cheat-sheets.html

I'll reply to your ASP.NET health monitoring question later today...I must admit I wasn't aware of it...

Regards,

Mitch

# alikl said on April 30, 2007 12:06 AM:

Mitch!

What a treasure!! - "I must admit I wasn't aware of it..." :) - THANKS for sharing

Hey, is not it all about with this blogshpere? Sharing, finding your network.

Great stuff.

# Christo Djambov said on May 4, 2007 9:19 AM:

Windows :

-Windows + D - Minimizes all windows so you can see desktop

VS :

-CTRL + K,D - Formats the code

-CRTL + M,M - Closes and opens current region or collapsable block

-CTRL + SPACE - Intelisence rocks

-CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE - again intelisence showing the method parameters

-type foreach|if|for and TAB+TAB - here you have ready foreach|if|for statement to complete

http://blogs.xcr-bg.com/2007/02/01/dont-touch-the-mouse/

probably you can more usefull shortcuts for VS

# alikl said on May 4, 2007 11:19 AM:

Chris, loved cntr+K+D!! Thanks for the other links in your post to posters!!

# alik levin's said on May 21, 2007 3:34 PM:

Information is all over – emails, blogs, notes, posts. While I consolidate incoming information in my

# alik levin's said on June 5, 2007 5:39 PM:

Visual Studio 2005 has powerful search capabilities. One of my favorites is "Find in Files". Just hit

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