Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts To Increase Productivity

In this article i am going to explain about How to increase your productivity by using the keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio.

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To become a productive developer you should use mouse as few as possible. It is possible only if you know the equivalant keyboard shortcuts. Because mouse clicking is one type of distraction that will kill the time of the developers.

But don't try to memorize all the shortcuts. Instead whenever you need to use mouse then just do some research to find any keyboard shortcut is available for that. Here is the list of some visual studio shortcuts I am using a lot often as a .NET developer.

Shortcut Keys	Description
Ctrl + X	Cut the current selected item to clipboard
Ctrl + C	Copies the current selected item to the clipboard
Ctrl + V	Pastes the item in the clipboard at the cursor
Ctrl + Z	Undo previous editing action
Ctrl + Y	Redo the previous undo action
Esc	Closes a menu or dialog, cancels an operation in progress, or places focus in the current document window
Ctrl + S	Saves the selected files in the current project (usually the file that is being edited)
Ctrl + Shift + S	Saves all documents and projects
Shift + F12	Finds a reference to the selected item or the item under the cursor
Ctrl + End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document
Ctrl + Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the document
Ctrl + G	Displays the Go to Line dialog
Ctrl + Right Arrow	Moves the cursor one word to the right
Ctrl + Left Arrow	Moves the cursor one word to the left
Ctrl + K, Ctrl + C	Marks the current line or selected lines of code as a comment
Ctrl + K, Ctrl + U	Removes the comment syntax from the current line or currently selected lines of code
Ctl + J	Lists members for statement completion when editing code
Ctrl + R, Ctrl + W	Shows or hides spaces and tab marks
Shift-Left Arrow	Moves the cursor to the left one character, extending the selection
Ctrl + Shift + End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document, extending the selection
Ctrl + Shift + Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the document, extending the selection
Shift + Down Arrow	Moves the cursor down one line, extending the selection
Shift + End	Moves the cursor to the end of the current line, extending the selection
Shift + Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the line, extending the selection
Shift + Up Arrow	Moves the cursor up one line, extending the selection
Shift + Page Down	Extends selection down one page
Shift + Page Up	Extends selection up one page
Ctrl + A	Selects everything in the current document
Ctrl + Shift + Page Down	Moves the cursor to the last line in view, extending the selection
Ctrl + Shift + Page Up	Moves the cursor to the top of the current window,
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Right Arrow	Moves the cursor to the right one word, extending the column selection
Ctrl + Shift + Left + Arrow	Moves the cursor one word to the left, extending the selection
Ctrl + Shift + B	Build the solution
Ctrl + Shift + N	Display the New Project dialog
Ctrl + O	Display open the file dialog
Ctrl + Shift + O	Display open project dialog
Shift + Alt + A	Display the Add Existing Item dialog
Ctrl + Shift + A	Display the Add New Item dialog
Shift + Alt + Enter	Toggles full screen mode
Ctrl + Tab	Cycles through the MDI child windows one by one
Ctrl + F	Display the Find dialog
Ctrl + Shift + F	Display the Find in Files dialog
F3	Find Next
Ctrl + H	Display the Replace dialog
Ctrl + Shift + H	Display the Replace in Files dialog

In the list some shortcuts are specific to some version of visual studio. So not all the shortcuts will work for your installed version.

I will add the list in future if i found some new shortcuts.