Visual Studio is the IDE I use for making my ASP.NET Core and C# applications. I feel when I mainly use my keyboard instead of the mouse, my productivity increases and it feels I can keep the thought train going, which is essential in the creative process of programming. Hotkeys and shortcuts are therefore important to incorporate in your way of working. Although it is a time investment, it’s definately worth it.
Productivity increases when focussing on using solely the keyboard during development after some time invested.
Hereby a list of short cuts I use daily. I want to highlight two shortcuts that were important to me going ‘mouseless’:
ctrl + t to quickly access classes and files, where you can use each capital letter of CamelCase (cc) to quickly find what you are looking for.
ctrl + tab to quickly navigate between views and files.
View
alt + shift + enter
distraction free mode
Navigation in file
ctrl + q
quick search
ctrl + ]
move to closing (or beginning) brace
ctrl + m + m
close / open block
Navigation in project
ctrl + t
open file in project
ctrl + tab
go to other open file
ctrl + F4
close file
f11
move into constructor
ctrl + -
move to previous view
ctrl + shift + -
move to forward view
alt w + line
close all open files
shift + F2
create new file or folder
Quick code
ctrl + .
code suggestion
ctrl + r + r
refactor
ctrl + d
duplicate line
alt + ↑
move code line up
alt + ↓
move code line down
ctrl + shift + v
show clipboard history
ctrl + k + x
all code snippets (tab + tab to complete code snippet)
