Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

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re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

Kirill Osenkov — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:43:47 GMT

It turns out, Stephen Walther has a similar list of tips here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/10/21/essential-visual-studio-tips-amp-tricks-that-every-developer-should-know.aspx

It is funny to see how we both recommend same tips. I honestly didn't read his post before I posted mine.

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

RednaxelaFX — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:06:51 GMT

Hi,

I recall the days when I was using VS2005, I used Ctrl+K,D to format code, but it changed to Ctrl+E,D in VS2008 (by default?). What's the target version of VS in this post? And umm, why it is that sometimes the build command is associated with F6, but sometimes with Ctrl+Shift+B?

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

Andrew — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:50:09 GMT

Hi, another nice feature is file search.

You can open ANY file in the solution by clicking Ctrl+/ and typing "open file" followed with the file name - tooltips would help :)

Instead of "open file", one can use the "of" shortcut.

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

Viacheslav Ivanov — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:38:15 GMT

My nickel: Ctrl+Alt+F10 - Show "Smart Tag" context menu from a keyboard.

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

RednaxelaFX — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:43:54 GMT

>> My nickel: Ctrl+Alt+F10 - Show "Smart Tag" context menu from a keyboard.

I thought most of the time the "Smart Tag" context menu can be invoked with the "Win" key...

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

RednaxelaFX — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:45:03 GMT

Oops, I meant the "context menu" key located somewhere in between the right Alt and right Ctrl on some keyboards.

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

Kirill Osenkov — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:42:44 GMT

This post is about Visual Studio 2008.

RednaxelaFX: F6 vs. Ctrl+Shift+B depends on your profile settings (C# Profile vs. VB Profile). In C#, the default build keybinding is F6, in VB - Ctrl+Shift+B. You can go to Tools -> Import and Export Settings -> Import -> Visual C# Development Settings (WARNING, all your current settings will be lost unless you back them up).

Viacheslav: Yes. Another one I use is Ctrl+. when the caret is near the Smart Tag.

re: Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

Viacheslav Ivanov — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:16:28 GMT

Thanks! Ctrl+. is more suitable :о))

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