19 Visual Studio shortcut keys that you must know

This article will give you a list of the shortcuts that are commonly used in Visual Studio, and using shortcut keys correctly and skillfully will greatly improve your programming productivity.

Project-related shortcut keys

Ctrl + Shift + B = Build Project

Ctrl + Alt + L = Show Solution Explorer (Solution Explorer)

Shift + ALT + C = Add New Class

Shift + Alt + A = Add New item to project

Edit related keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl + Enter = Blank lines are inserted in the current line

Ctrl + Shift + Enter = blank line inserted below the current line

Ctrl + SPACEBAR = auto-complete with IntelliSense (IntelliSense)

Alt + Shift + arrow key ( ← ,,, ↑ ↓ → ) = Select a custom part of the code

Ctrl +} = Match curly braces, parentheses

Ctrl + Shift +} = Select text within the matching brackets, parentheses

Ctrl + Shift + S = Save All files and items

Ctrl + K,ctrl + C = Comment selected line

Ctrl + K,ctrl + U = Uncomment the selected line

Ctrl + K,ctrl + D = correct alignment of all code

Shift + End = Select entire row from start to finish

Shift + Home = Select entire row from end of head

Ctrl + Delete = delete all words to the right of the cursor

Navigation-related keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl +up/down = Scrolls the window but does not move the cursor

Ctrl +- = Let the cursor move to its previous position

Ctrl + + = Let the cursor move to the next position

F12 = go To Definition

debugging-related keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl + Alt + P = Attach to Process

F10 = Debug Single-Step execution

F5 = Start debugging

Shift + F5 = Stop Debugging

Ctrl + Alt + Q = Add Quick Match

F9 = set or remove breakpoints

Search for related keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl + K CTRL + K = Add bookmark to Current line

CTRL + K CTRL + N = Navigate to Next Bookmark

Ctrl +. = If you type a class name such as Collection<string>, and the namespace import is incorrect, then this shortcut combination will be automatically inserted into the import

Ctrl + Shift + F = Find in File

Shift + F12 = Find All References

Ctrl + F = Show Find dialog box

Ctrl + H = Show Replace dialog box

Ctrl + G = jump To line number or line

Ctrl + Shift + F = Find references to the selected entries throughout the solution

19 Visual Studio shortcut keys that you must know