Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Ricardo Villamil — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:48:27 GMT

I personally love this shortcut and use it all the time! I use the Alt+Shift+F10 one, didn't know about Ctrl + ., I think I'll try to switch to it now ;)

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Kelly — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:33:17 GMT

Thank you! I have been having a horrible time getting the little bar to respond to my mouse so that I can see the dropdown. Now, I know how to do it with the keyboard. Works every time without fail! (so far).)

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Danny Trobu — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:32:34 GMT

Great Tip! Great to know I'm not the only one who cannot remember alt-shift-F10. Yay for Ctrl+.! Thanks Sara!

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Serge Wautier — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:29:54 GMT

Great! I read about it a couple of times but never managed to make it work. Thanks to your screenshots, I can now use it.

FWIW, Ctrl+. is actually Ctrl+; on my belgian french keyboard.

Pretty cool that VS realizes that . requires Shift on my keyboard (as opposed to ;. Which I believe is one of the differences with US keyboards) hence binds the function to Ctrl+;

(OTOH, I guess this the reason I never managed to make it work before).

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Programmerman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:40:00 GMT

Yeah, I'm one of those who uses Alt+Shift+F10. I do love this keyboard shortcut. :)

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Keenan Marshall — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:15:07 GMT

Neither shortcut does anything for me, and they're mapped just fine. I don't even see that smart tag line. Is there something I need to enable?

re: Did you know… Ctrl+. shows a smart tag - #359

Matthias — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:58:46 GMT

Yeah... thanks to the information here I was able to re-bind it to Ctrl+1 so that I can keep using it the same way in Eclipse and in VS! Thanks a lot!

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Sara Ford's Weblog — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:25:06 GMT

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