Navigation Shortcuts
| Ctrl + ] | Moves the cursor to the matching brace in the source file |
| Ctrl + Hyphen (-) | Moves cursor to its previous position |
| Ctrl + Shift + Hyphen (-) | Moves cursor to the next browsed line of code |
| Shift + F7 | Switch between the Design and Source View of the document |
| Ctrl + Tab | Displays the IDE Navigator with the current document selected. Allows you to navigate open documents. Also try Alt+W+2 |
| Ctrl + Shift + F | Displays the ‘Find in Files’ tab of the ‘Find and Replace’ dialog box |
| Ctrl + I | Activates Incremental Search by searching for the next occurrence of the input text. You can even use F3 |
| Shift + F12 | Displays a list of all references for the symbol selected |
| Ctrl + / | Moves focus to the Find/Command box |
| Ctrl + K + C | Comment a Line or an entire selected block |
| Ctrl + K + U | Uncomment a Line or an entire selected block |
| Ctrl + L | Cuts the current line |
| Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V | Duplicate a line |
Window Shortcuts
| Shift + Alt + Enter | Toggle Full Screen Mode |
| Ctrl + M + O | Collapses all Regions to provide a high level overview of the types and members in the source file |
| Ctrl + M + L | Toggles all previously collapsed Regions |
| / | Collapses all tabs in a Toolbox |
| * | Expands all tabs in a Toolbox. If * does not work, use Shift + 8 for ENU keyboards as explained here |
| Shift + Esc | Closes the current Tool Window with focus |
Code Completion Shortcuts
| Ctrl + Period (.) | Expands the Smart Tag Menu (Usually when you rename a method or need to add a ‘using’ statement). You can also use Alt+Shift+F10 |
| Tab | Inserts expanded code snippet using a shortcut (for example enter the keyword ‘class’ and hit Tab twice) |
| Ctrl + Space | Completes the current word in the completion list |
Other Shortcuts
| Ctrl + Shift + B | Build the solution. You can even try F6 |
| F5 | Start the application with Debugging |
| Ctrl + F5 | Start the application without Debugging |
| F9 | Sets or Removes a breakpoint at the current line |
| Ctrl + Shift + S | Save all unsaved files |
| Ctrl + Alt + L | Show Solution Explorer |
| Ctrl + Shift + A | Displays the Add New Item dialog box |
| Alt + Shift + A | Displays the Add Existing Item dialog box |
