Not really sure what to put as title, so feel free to suggest edits.
Anyway I was just wondering if there's a hotkey in Visual Studio 13 to "edit/change" what I just wrote. Here's an example I have that will probably clear it up:
Let's say I want to write DateTime.now but I accidently autocomplete it to DateTime.UtcNow is there a hotkey I can press that will bring up Intellisense and allow me to rewrite/edit the last part?
Ctrl+Z and than again Ctrl+Space.
So you can create a macro for your own use that combines the commands:
Edit.Undo
Edit.CompleteWord
Edit: I just see that you asked for VS-2013, this version does not support macros any longer. So the only way to perform this action with one keystroke is to create an addin.
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I am new with Visual Studio and I have been looking for keyboard shortcuts but I can't find the one that would show me the doc of a function.
Sometimes it shows it automatically but for other functions don't do it and when you start writing it dissapear so you can't read it again in case you need it.
In jupiter notebook you can do that by pressing in a function CONTROL + SHIFT but there is nothing in Visual Studio and I think it's very handy when you are new.
Please, could anyone help me.
Thank you
I'm not so familiar with Python, but I believe the command you need to invoke is Edit.QuickInfo, to show docs for the symbol under the caret.
In this screenshot you can see it is set to Ctrl+K, I on my machine. It may be different on yours. If you click on Edit.QuickInfo in the list of commands, it will show you what the shortcut is for your environment.
Writing C# code in Visual Studio 2019. The constant popups as you type or position the mouse are very distracting. In Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages (or your language), you can disable all popups as you type by untciking Auto list members, but this is not what I need. Firstly I don't want to disable them completely and secondly this doesn't affect popups when you hover over a variable.
Ideally, I'd like popups more sparingly and only after a long-ish delay (say 1000ms). Currently they appear nearly instantly whenever I type any character or move the mouse over the code.
Can the delay be configured?
Update
According to a comment to this question, Visual Studio does not currently support a delay. But the experience for C# coding can be improved at Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Intellisense. Find the option Show completion list after a character is typed and untick it.
Actually, VS does not such feature to make a delay for code Intellisense.
Suggestion
So my suggestion is that you can disable the option Show completion list after a character is typed just as you said.
And then if you want to invoke Intellisense, you should type Ctrl + Space manually to invoke the Intellisense.
In this way, you can invoke the Intellisense anytime based on your needs.
Besides, if you still want this requirement, I suggest you could suggest your feature on our DC Forum.
Also, you can share the link here and anyone including us will vote it so that it will get more Microsoft's attention.
Update 1
I already suggested the feature for you and you can check the link.
You can vote on it and add any comments if I did not describe the issue in detail. Hope the Team will consider the idea carefully and give us a satisfactory reply.
Since the process would take a long time, so you have to use my workaround manually so far.
When I am in the middle of debugging I often find more than one area that can be improved (or fixed) and I like to mark them in such away that I can come back later and make the improvement.
Currently I add a bookmark to the line but this can't include any notes that can be used to remind me why the bookmark was there (you can change the name of the bookmark but this isn't enough). I suppose I really want to be able to add a TODO to the code while the code is running but although Edit and Continue is enabled it is not available in the ASP.NET WebForms (3.5) project.
Are there any Visual Studio features or extensions that will enable this?
Instead of enabling Edit and Continue then entering a TODO: into the source code, you can create a Task List Shortcut (key cord Ctrl + K, Ctrl + H).
This adds an entry to the Shortcuts section of the Task List window. From there you can change the description of the task to remind you why you created it.
Due to the fact the answer marked as accepted has been deprecated in VS 2015 onwards, I used this solution instead:
Bookmark a line of code using the key cord Ctrl+K Ctrl+K, then open the Bookmarks window (Ctrl+K Ctrl+W). In the Bookmarks window you can rename your bookmarks to whatever you please.
I have tested this in both VS 2015 and 2017 (Community).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure to File->Save All (Ctrl+Shift+S) every once in a while so you don't lose the bookmarks you've been working on if VS or Windows decide to crash. I have fallen victim to this and it is painful.
The Edit and Continue feature will let you make simple changes to your code while debugging. If you your change is simple enough then you can make the change on the fly while coding. For more complicated changes, you can add a TODO comment of the form:
// TODO: Explanation of fix
You can see a list of all TODO comments by looking at the task list within Visual Studio.
After working for a few days with Eclipse Java I totally got addicted to pressing Ctrl and clicking on an identifier to go to its definition. Since then I've been looking for a way to achieve this in Visual Studio as well.
I realize VS has right click, Go to definition, and that F12 does the same. I also realize that Visual Assist does something similar with Alt + G. Yet none of these are as perfect as Ctrl + click.
I've actually tried my luck for a few hours trying to write a VS plugin to do it but didn't get anywhere in the time frame I thought reasonable for this.
Does anyone know how this could be achieved? A ready plugin? A macro of some kind?
If you use Visual Studio 2010, you can use the free
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools from Microsoft to achieve this.
I use visual studio 2013 and 2015, I installed Go To Definition. To install this extension navigate on TOOLS -> Extensions and Updates.
I'll answer the commentors who asked about the difference between Ctrl-click and F12.
Ctrl-click workflow:
Move hand to mouse
Move mouse to hover over variable name
Other hand holds down Ctrl key while you click
Move mouse to position cursor, highlight, right-click, or whatever
Move hand back to keyboard to continue typing
F12 workflow
Move hand to mouse
Mouse mouse to hover over variable name
Move hand back to keyboard
Hit F12 key
Move hand back to mouse
Move mouse to position cursor, highlight, right-click, or whatever
Move hand back to keyboard to continue typing
If you assume the cursor is already positioned on the desired variable, F12 is better. However, that's rarely the case. Also, if you stop after this specific action, assuming you want hands back at the keyboard, the cost is the same. But if you keep in mind that you probably had a reason for wanting to go to the definition, the Ctrl-click workflow saves you an instance of moving between the keyboard and mouse.
Visual Assist supports Ctrl+Click as of June 2009 (build 1727). Activate Ctrl+LeftClick in VA Options | Advanced | General. (See the comment below.)
If you have Visual Studio 2010 you can use "Go To Definition" by Noah Richards.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/4b286b9c-4dd5-416b-b143-e31d36dc622b
oh man, just install resharper!! (vs plugin) with it installed you just go and Ctrl + click to go to definition.
this is not the only thing resharper does, try it out free!!!
I use the built in options (F12, Right-click -> Go to definition) but I know a lot of the guys at my company use Resharper and it definitely has this functionality.
Microsoft released a Visual Studio 2010 extension named "Productivity Power Tools" which now adds Ctrl+Click functionality. So if you're like me, and hate installing third-party addons, you can now have the same functionality!
Another option with VS (besides F12 and right-click > Go to Def) is add the code definition pane (View > Code Def Window). This is essentially another editing pane that shows the code for the current symbol - no need to Ctrl-click or anything. I keep it pinned to my secondary monitor. Any time I need to see the implementation for a symbol I just click it and look over.
Another nice thing about F12 is you can also do ShiftF12 to find references to a symbol and F8 through them. The two go together like love and happiness.
I prefer to bind Go To Definition to CtrlD. This makes it extremely easy to use either with both hands on the keyboard (CtrlD to go tho the definition of the symbol under the cursor) or one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse (Click on a symbol, then CtrlD).
All in all, both VS and Eclipse have weird key shortcuts.
I just had to respond, too: F12 is far too right on the keyboard and you have to leave the the mouse right hand for the keyboard to use it. As a long time VS user I just didn't find it until I searched for the Ctrl+Mouse equivalent in Eclipse. It's completely borked. OK? No need to argue. (The same goes for F3 in Eclipse going for definition. ???? Why the face??? It's FIND NEXT for Pete's sake. But this can be removed after mastering the Eclipse keyboard shortcut system in the course of a few years.)
Anyway, as has been said here before, Microsoft has already understood this can be an issue for new programmers coming in from Eclipse, so they provided the Power Tools (I followed the link up above).
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef/
If you are using Visual Studio 2017, you can use Productivity Power Tools 2017
I don't work in VS much, so I haven't used it, but I've heard incredibly good things about Resharper from everyone I know who does. Everyone has told me it's worth every penny, and significantly improves efficiency in Visual Studio. I think it has a feature like what you're looking for, along with a TON of others.
With ViEmu you really need to unbind a lot of resharpers keybindings to make it work well.
Does anyone have what they think is a good set of keybindings that work well for resharper when using ViEmu?
What I'm doing at the moment using the Visual Studio bindings from Resharper. Toasting all the conflicting ones with ViEmu, and then just driving the rest through the menu modifiers ( Alt-R keyboard shortcut for the menu item ). I also do the same with Visual Assist shortcuts ( for C++ )
if anyones got any tips and tricks for ViEmu / Resharper or Visual Assist working together well I'd most apprciate it!
You can also create mappings in ViEmu that will call the VS and R# actions. For example, I have these lines in my _viemurc file for commenting and uncommenting a selection:
map <C-S-c> gS:vsc Edit.CommentSelection<CR>
map <C-A-c> gS:vsc Edit.UncommentSelection<CR>
The :vsc is for "visual studio command," and then you enter the exact text of the command, as it appears in the commands list when you go to Tool>Options>Keyboard
I don't use any of the R# ones in this way, but it does work, as with:
map <C-S-A-f> gS:vsc ReSharper.FindUsages<CR>
I use both as well, but I'm using the IntelliJ keybindings instead, so I can't speak specifically to the Visual Studio bindings. J.P. Boodhoo has some changes that he has made via AutoHotKey to provide additional Vim-like functionality to Visual Studio + ReSharper + ViEmu.
I have removed a few of the scanned keys, though, because I want to keep some of the ReSharper functionality over the ViEmu functionality, though the way I use these tools change over time as I learn more shortcuts from either ViEmu or ReSharper.
I have noticed the following, which may be useful to know. Some of the ReSharper keyboard mappings that ViEmu hoses, will work once you have a different ReSharper dialog open. I use the IntelliJ IDEA-based shortcuts, but I assume this will work similarly for ReSharper's VS scheme.
Example: ViEmu binds to Ctrl+N which R# uses for Go To Type. However, ViEmu does not bind to Ctrl+Shift+N which R# uses for Go To File. Therefore, if you hit Ctrl+Shift+N the Go To dialog is launched. You can then take your finger off Shift and hit N again and the dialog will switch to Go To Type.
This is very useful, if like me you use Go To Type a lot and don't really want to mess with the keyboard mappings.
As #Jay noted the best way is to set up custom bindings.
Here is example of bindings at https://github.com/StanislawSwierc/Profile. I created my bindings based on the previous at https://github.com/w1ld/viemu_settings
I use both plugins, but I really prefer the power of the Vi input model that ViEmu gives. I really don't miss so much the Resharper keybindings...