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What's Your Biggest Time Saving Feature in Visual Studio 2008

The reason I am asking this question is: -

I am getting real buzz about feature detection in Visual Studio 2008 that end up saving time after time. Recently found a blog from Sarah Ford who pushes a tip to her blog every day.

I wonder what is the biggest time-saving advice you can give in terms of using an IDE in visual studio 2008?

So far, the best function I've found is Ctrl + and Ctrl - for navigating back and forth.

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Lots of features have been mentioned here ... Especially this blog has a lot of helpful tips.



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Using Refactor shortcuts. Click "Refactor" in the menu and you will see a short list. For example, Ctrl + R, M for "Extract Method".



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My biggest time-saving feature is IntelliSense, although it's not a very hidden feature.;)

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Just refactoring in the context menu only ...

edit: ++ conditional breaks if it wasn't obvious

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When you post shortcuts, think about how it differs from which keyboard mapping scheme you are using. I am using "Visual Basic 6" as an example.

So please add which schema you are using as information with a shortcut.

SHIFT + F2 to go to the definition of a variable / function / no matter what the cursor is pointing at, and CTRL + SHIFT + F2 to go back where I was from is my temporary splash screen.

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In C #, you can use CTRL + å (Norwegian keyboard, key to the right of P on your us / uk keyboard) to jump between pairs of brackets. If your cursor is on the {parenthesis, you jump to the corresponding end of the backet and vice versa.

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If you have a large solution, turn off the Auto Populate Toolbox entry in the preferences. This will save you a lot of time if you're working with graphic designers like WinForms.

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