Short Cuts in Visual Studio 2005 - Part 1

Posted Date: 19 Jun 2009	Resource Type: Articles	Category: Visual Studio
Author: D.Jeya kumar(JK)	Member Level: Diamond
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Short cuts in VS 2005.

All the Windows application will have some short cut keys in order to reduce the mouse interface. off Course
Microsoft products are user friendly products. Visual studio also have many short cuts which we might some things and we
Might not know many short cuts.

First we will see how open the visual studio application using the shortcut...

Click the start button and the click the Run prompt and then type Devenv it will open the Visual studio application

We will start with function keys

Go to declaration press - F12

To debug step over press - F10

To debug run to cursor press - ctrl + F10

To debug step into press - F11

To debug step out press- shift + F11

To Toggle a breakpoint press- F9

To go to the next item in task list or search results press - F8

To go to previous item in task list or search results press - shift + F8

If you are in aspx page then switch to code view press - F7

If you are in code behind page then to go to designer view press - shift + F7

To run the application with debugging press - F5

To select current word under the cursor press - Ctrl + W

Search for current word under the cursor Ctrl + F3

To stop debugging of the application press - shift + F5

To Run the application without debugging - ctrl + F5

To Move to previous edit point press - ctrl + -

To switch to the Task List press - ctrl + alt + K

To switch to the Immediate window press - ctrl + alt + I

To switch to the Output window press - ctrl + alt + O

To Find a text in a page or project of opened file or in a function press - ctrl + F

To find a text in all files of the solution press - ctrl + shift + F

Open document you can also use this to toggle between documents like Alt-Tab does for windows - Ctrl + Tab

To build the application only - ctrl + shift + B

To format the page press if the aspx or code behind is not aligned - ctrl + K + D

I will add more short cut in my next post

Regards
JK

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