In visual studio 2008 you have the navigation bar with Class Name combo box and Method Name combo box.
What is the shortcut to get inside any of these combo boxes from the code window?
Ctrl + F2 should do it (although it does depend upon which keyboard mapping you are using - Ctrl + F8 is the shortcut in my Visual Studio settings).
In general, the easiest way to find a keyboard shortcut if you know the name of what it is you are looking for is to go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard and then type its name into the "Show commands containing" box. It will then show you the shortcut(s) currently assigned for the command.
eg. typing navigation into that box shows Ctrl + F8 (for me) in the "shortcuts for selected command" box.
I understand this has been asked, but has a direct shortcut key been created for the second navigation box in visual studio 2010?
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My quick watch (shift + F9) shortcut suddenly is not working.
But its alternate keyboard chord Control + Alt + Q works fine.
And all other shortcut seems working fine. But quick watch is the only one that I currently found.
I have tried other shortcut with Shift or with F9 , no problem.
I am also using Resharper, is that affecting VS Shift F9?
If you have Snag-It installed on your machine, its global shortcuts may override application specific shortcuts in Visual Studio (or other apps).
See #nuri's answer here: Visual Studio 2010 QuickWatch window not visible for instructions and screen-shots to change the Snag-It settings.
In the meantime, just go into the Snag-It preferences, the HotKeys tab, and set the "Video capture start/pause/resume" hot key to something other than [Shift]-[F9]. For myself, I only use "Global capture", so I set everything else to "None".
You can try the following:
In TOOLS --> Options | Keyboard, make sure the right mapping scheme is selected (Visual C# 2005 for me) and click Reset and finally, Ok
Does Visual Studio 2010 have a shortcut for quick fix?
I'm tired of grabbing the mouse, hovering over this red line, waiting for the little clipboard icon to appear, clicking on the first menu item. It would be so much fast to just open that dialog with some keys and confirming the first (i.e. selected) item.
The feature is called the "Smart Tag".
Default Keyboard Shortcut Schemes (ReSharper documentation)
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They can usually be invoked via the keyboard using either:
Ctrl+. (on a standard QWERTY keyboard)
Alt+Shift+F10 (if you've not got Function Lock enabled)
If your cursor is on the item that is underlined, you can use Ctrl + . to pop up the intellisence/suggestion context menu.
Alt + Shift + F10 does the trick.
Via #Rohit from Visual Studio keyboard shortcut to automatically add the needed using statement
If you want to edit the shortcut of quick fix you can do the following:
Open Tools->Options->Keyboard and in the Show commands containing field enter EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.QuickActionsForPosition and replace the old shortcut with the new one.
In Eclipse, selecting a line and pressing Alt + ↑/↓ will move the line up and down, a quick way to avoid copy&paste.
Is there an equivalent in Visual Studio?
In Visual Studio 2013 and later, this functionality is built in. ALT + UP/DOWN will move a line up or down.
If you need this functionality in VS2012 (works with VS2010 too), take a look at the MoveLine Visual Studio Extension or the Productivity Power Tools suite.
ReSharper's Ctrl + Shift + Alt + ↑/↓/←/→ is even more powerful - when on the beginning of the line, it will move the entire line, but can also be used to move entire methods, change the order of parameters, etc.
For me in Visual Studio 2019 it comes default closed.
For open it:
Tools -> Options -> Keyboard then select Edit.MoveSelectedLinesUp, click "Press shortcut keys" input and press Alt + Up (or whatever you want for it). And the other one is Edit.MoveSelectedLinesDown, click "Press shortcut keys" input and press Alt + Down (or whatever you want for it).
This is now working out of the box with Visual Studio 2013, same way as in Eclipse.
For Visual Studio 2013:
Tools -> Options -> Keyboard then select Edit.MoveSelectedLinesDown, click "Press shortcut keys" input and press Alt + Down. You also have to select the scope of the shortcut to be within "Text Editor".
In Visual Studio 2013 and later, you can move lines up and down using Alt + ↑ / Alt + ↓. Unfortunately this will not adjust the indentation if you move between blocks, as of today only ReSharper (and all other IDE's by Jetbrains including Rider) can help you with that.
To move entire blocks of code around you can move the cursor to its head and press Ctrl + m twice fast to collapse it, and then use the command above to move it around.
Here is a neat reference to all default keyboard shortcuts in different versions of Visual Studio.
With the VSCommands extension, you have exactly that keyboard shortcut. And, by the way, a Stack OVerflow notification toolbar :)
Shortcut for "Find Result 1" in Visual Studio?
Hotkeys for Visual Studio 2010 - Alt + vn1
Hotkeys for Visual Studio 2015 - Alt + vnnEnter1
Hotkeys for Visual Studio 2017 - Alt + vnnnEnter1
If you don't feel like customizing your own shortcuts, or you use different environments where you can't always rely on your customization being present, you can always go the old school route of just navigating the menus via hotkeys.
For instance, in Visual Studio 2010, you can just type Alt + vn1.
Typing Alt + v opens up the "View" menu.
Typing n opens up the "Find Results" menu item in the View menu.
Typing 1 selects the "Find Results 1" menu item, thereby opening and setting focus to the "Find Results 1" window.
Likewise, Alt + vn2 opens up the "Find Results 2" window.
If you do this enough, it's like any other keyboard shortcut, and becomes second nature.
ProTip
You can discover the hotkey shortcut to any menu item you need by just hitting Alt, and looking at the letters that are underlined in the menus. This applies to pretty much any windows program you will ever use.
There's no predefined shortcut for that (at least in VS 2005) but just select Customize... from the Options menu, press the Keyboard... button and then create a suitable shortcut for View.FindResults1.
In Visual Studio Professional 2013 (not sure about the other version) the function key "F8" will take you to the next result in the Find Results window, and "Shift-F8" will take you in the reverse direction (i.e. find previous result).
You can assign keyboard shortcuts as you please through Tools > Customize > keyboard.
In the show commands containing textbox type View.FindResults1.
In the Press shortcut keys textbox type in the shortcuts you want to add and then press the Assign button.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch to Team Explorer? For example, to switch to Solution Explorer it's CTRL + ALT + L. But I cannot find one for Team Explorer.
Yes it is CTRL + \ , CTRL + M
In the future if you need to find out what the keyboard shortcut is for a given item, the easiest way is to do the following
Open Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard
Type in the component name to "Show Commands Containing"
Click on the appropriate command it it's shortcut, if present, will show in the shortcut menu.
After typing in "TeamExplorer" to 2010 Beta2, it show up only 4 commands, one of which is View.TeamExplorer.