As i have self professed earlier, i am a rather lazy coder.So i thought if i had a few newbie Dotnet brethren down there somewhere,who might find the following interesting.(Pros this is just a cakewalk for you!)I am just jotting down some of my favorite Dotnet shortcuts,though there are a few exhaustive hundreds of them.Here are some of them.
Ctrl + “.” ——–Adds the references, ie it opens the tag window and we can just hit Enter when it pops up.
Ctrl+K+C and Ctrl+K+U ——Comments and Uncomments code
Ctrl + ”-” and Ctrl +Shift + “-”————Used for navigating backward and forwards
Ctrl +X or Ctrl + L ————No need to select the entire line and do a shift+home or shift +end,stay anywhere on the line and just do it.It cuts the entire line.Similarly for Ctrl + C.
F7 ————-Changes from Design view to Code view or vice versa
F12 ———Go to definition
Shift + F12—— Find all references
Ctrl +M+L and Ctrl + M + O ——– Collapse and expand definitions.
Ctrl +Shift +V ——- To rotate the pasted items in the clipboard.ie you can get prevously copied snippets!only 20 at a time.
Ctrl + U and Ctrl +Shift +U—— to make the variables lowercase or uppercase.
Ctrl + R + E ——- if you have missed writing a property with prop + tab + tab,dont worry,first click on that line and type this shortcut which basically opens the encapsulate method smart window.
Alt + Ctrl + P —– Opens the Attach Process Window
Ctrl + D + P ——- View all the attached processes.You can individually detach each process here.Pretty useful especially if you want to detach one and add another
Alt + Ctrl + Q or Context + Q——opens QuickWatch
Ctrl + K + D ———–Formats(sets proper indentation) the entire code in the current file .Or else just got to the last curly braces and just remove it and add it again.Voila its done!
Ctrl +Shift+F10 —– set the execution point to the current line
Ctrl +Shift+F9 —– removes all breakpoints
Alt + Ctrl + I —– command window
In addition to the hundreds of shortcuts that you have,we can create more by going to Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard and then specify the shortcut that you want.My Fav one, is the one that we are all used to doing with the mouse..File.OpenContainingFolder(i just assigned the Alt+O)
Trivia..try running this from Run/Command Prompt..(try this at ur own risks).Later you can go to the prompt and try out other switches like ”devenv /nospash”.
“devenv.exe /resetuserdata”.(the switch kinda gives away the clue!)
For the exhaustive set of C# shortcuts download the pdf from the following location.
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