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10 Visual Studio Shortcuts you should make your habit.

Th Visual Studio is a great Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for millennium software developers and there are many features in it which you might not know. To deliver solutions to your clients fast, you need a way to work faster so, in this article, I am writing about some Visual Studio Shortcuts that could make you very efficient when developing.
The List:

  1. Ctrl+Tab: I love this shortcut, it helps me in navigating through Active Tool Windows and Active files and you can still further navigate with Up arrow, Down arrow keys, etc while holding down the Ctrl Key.
  2. Ctrl+K, C : This shortcut is used for commenting out selected lines of code, you first highlight the lines you want to comment out then you press Ctrl+K and press Key C while still holding Ctrl key.
  3. Ctrl+K, U: Of course it wont be complete if we have a shortcut for commenting out lines without the opposite shortcut. Use this shortcut the same way you use the commenting shortcut.
  4. Ctrl+Shift+F and Ctrl+F: Use this shortcut to search for something within your solution. Experiment to find the difference between Ctrl+Shift+F and Ctrl+F.
  5. Ctrl+Space bar: Use this shortcut to trigger intellisence.
  6. Ctrl+F5: Yeah, this is the most popular one, it starts and lets you test your program in a non-debugging mode.
  7. F5: This is the opposite of Ctrl+F5, it starts and lets you test your program in a debug mode.
  8. Ctrl+Shift+B: Sometimes, you want to build you project without running it, this shortcut helps you in accomplishing that.
  9. Ctrl+Shift+A: With this shortcut, you can add new item to your project.
  10. Shift+Alt+A: Use this shortcut to add existing item to your project.


Come on friends, the list is endless; if we continue writing today we are going to feel up the whole place. As a developer, the task that these shortcuts helps you to accomplish, are the task that you can't do without when developing a solution. If have a shortcut you think should be added to the list, please be very kind to list it in the comment section below, thanks.

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