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Archive for September, 2009

Visual Studio Tricks: Mini Command Window

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Visual Studio has another well hidden feature, the Mini Command Window. You can use the “Find” TextBox on the toolbar to start commands.
 
Just set the cursor to the “Find” TextBox and enter a command. All the commands start with ‘>’. Here is a list of available commands:

>alias (show commands)
>g (start debug)
>q (stop debug)
>r [...]

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Visual Studio Tricks: Keyboard Shortcuts

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Visual Studio is shipped with hundreds of keyboard shortcuts. Here are my favorites:
General:

Go to Definition: F12
Find all References: Shift + F12
Go to last edited position in code: Ctrl – -  (Ctrl – Dash)
Delete Line: Ctrl – L
Cut Line: Shift – Del
Copy Line: Ctrl – C (no need to select the text before)
Comment/Uncomment: Ctrl – K [...]

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