Visual Studio - Keyboard Shortcuts 12/15/2009 All Visual Studio posts

There are a lot of resources out there for Visual Studio 2K8 and I wanted to try to come up with a better list of the more useful ones. Enjoy!

 

Editor

  • CTRL + SPACE
    Brings up the Intellisense Dialog
  • ALT + ENTER
    Opens up the Properties window
  • CTRL + K + S
    Prompts you to wrap selected text with code snippets (#region, foreach, etc.)
  • CTRL + K + C
    Comments the highlighted text
  • CTRL + K + U
    Uncomments the highlighted text
  • F12
    Triggers the "Go to definition" command
  • SHIFT + DEL
    Cuts the current row into the clipboard
 

Debugging

  • CTRL + ALT + Q
    Opens up the Quick Watch Window while debugging
  • F9
    Adds a breakpoint on the line where the cursor currently is
  • CTRL + SHIFT + F9
    Clears all breakpoints