Hey,

Visual Studio 2005 is the leading developer tool on the market, and I would like to share with you some tips and tricks that will make this great tool even more powerful. Getting familiar with a tool is crucial to getting the most out of the tool, and development tools and IDEs are no different. But with the many new technologies such as C# 2.0, ASP .NET 2.0, WWF, WPF,and WCF,I hope you will learn a couple of useful things that will make your life inside Visual Studio more pleasant and productive.


keyboard shortcuts :

Ever wished that you never have to take your hands off the keyboard when you are doing your development inside Visual Studio? If you are a power user, you will certainly enjoy the using keyboard shortcuts to perform various operations more quickly. I am sure most of you are already familiar with some of them: F5 for Debug.Start, F10 for Debug.StepOver, F4 for View.Properties. There are several other very useful keyboard shortcuts that are less known. I have included some of my favorites below.


F7 :- Toggles between design and code views.

F9 :- Toggles breakpoint.

F12:- Go to definition of a variable, object, or function.

Ctrl+Shift+7Ctrl+Shift+8 :- Quickly navigate forward and backwards in the go to definition stack.

Shift+F12:- Find all references of a function or a variable.

Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M :- Expand and collapse code outlining in the editor.

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+CCtrl+K, Ctrl+U :- Comment and uncomment line(s) of code, respectively.

Shift+Alt+Enter :- Toggles between full screen mode and normal mode.

Ctrl+I :- Incremental Search.

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J.Saravanan