The spirit of such is "One Shortcut A Day, Keep Mouse Away".
"Ctrl-Space" to force open the IntelliSense menu, so you do not really have to type "this." in order to access the immediate members of current class.
"Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow" to open all the open files (equivalent to mouse click on the arrow at the top right corner, besides the close button). After opening it, you can type the first few letters of the file to quickly access it.
"Ctrl-Space" is to force open IntelliSense. Now how about IntelliSense for a method? If you frequently backspace to delete a comma or delete all the way back to the opening parenthesis in order to take a look at a parameter required or the method signature, there is a shortcut too. It is Ctrl-Shift-Space, and easy to remember. Recall Shift is usually to provide a counterpart/extended functionality in keyboard shortcut. It opens the method signature as expected.
Visual Studio editor uses clipboard ring, which cycles the last 10(?) copy/cut operations. So you can always Ctrl-C several things first, before starting to put them using Ctrl-Shift-V (instead of Ctrl-V, well, modified by Shift again) into other places as appropriate. This could save some Ctrl-Tab, switching back and forth between open documents.
The next useful thing is to navigate between previous edit (cursor) points, if you work on multiple documents at once. Ctrl-Minus and Ctrl-Shift-Minus will help to goes back/forth cursor in the editor (within several open documents).
Crtl-] to navigate between any pair of objects, including...
between ( and )
between [ and ]
between { and }
between #region and #endregion
Posted
Aug 10 2006, 09:10 AM
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blackinkbottle