What are the most useful keyboard short-cuts in an IDE
I know of Visual Studio:
- SHIFT+ALT+F10 - Show Smart Tag
I wish there were Eclipse like functionality below:
- CTRL+SHIFT+H - Show Hierarchy
- CTRL+T - Find related Types
- CTRL+SHIFT+T - Open Types
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Visual Studio
- Ctrl + Shift + F Find in multiple files.
- Ctrl + K + D Apply default formatting rules.
- Ctrl + K + C Comment section.
- Ctrl + K + U Uncomment section.
- Ctrl + Alt + E Debugger auto break on exception settings.
JD Conley
2009-01-14 04:33:26
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In Visual Studio:
F12 on a method or variable to go to the method source or variable definition.
LeopardSkinPillBoxHat
2009-01-14 04:37:01
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In Visual Studio:
Highlight a block of code, and then press Ctrl-K-F to nicely adjust the indentation of the entire block. This also takes into account condition blocks and loops.
LeopardSkinPillBoxHat
2009-01-14 04:39:41
wow, that's nice... why can't it do this by default when you paste something?
DShook
2009-01-14 07:17:23
It must be an editor option, because my VS seems to adjust indentation and formatting when pasting code in.
nsr81
2009-01-14 14:24:05
Go to Options->Text Editor-><Language>->Tabs and check what setting you have for "Indenting". "Smart" indenting will automatically indent the code for you when you have conditional statements and loops and automatically remove the indent when required (so you don't have redundant whitespace).
LeopardSkinPillBoxHat
2009-01-14 22:17:54
Hmmm...this doesn't seem to work when pasting code, only when writing new code :-(
LeopardSkinPillBoxHat
2009-01-14 22:20:18
A:
If you are using resharper (highly recommended) these are the biggies:
- Alt-Enter for the quick fixes and context actions
- Alt-Insert for the code generation stuff
- Ctrl-Shift-R for the refactoring tools
- Alt-` for the navigation stuff (go to type, go to file). I hardly ever use solution explorer because of this short cut
PhilCo
2009-01-14 04:40:17
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Ctrl + Shift + Home End UpArrow DownArrow.
Much better than using the mouse to select a lot of text. Not really IDE specific, but definitely the combo I use the most.
Ed Swangren
2009-01-14 04:42:00
Hm, is that a refactoring chord? I'm pretty sure that one is the "Make reusable" refactoring! :)
Michael Meadows
2009-01-14 14:38:50
cschol
2009-01-15 05:34:10
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Visual Studio:
CTRL-R + CTRL-T
Runs unit tests in current scope (which I usually do more often than running the app)
ctacke
2009-01-14 05:10:59
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Emacs:
CTRL-LEFTSHIFT-RIGHTSHIFT-META-ALT-WINDOW-APPLE-X to exit.
:-)
Seriously, CTRL-F11 in Eclipse to re-run last, so as to avoid the stupid Run dialog box.
Or the infamous "." in vi to repeat the last command.
paxdiablo
2009-01-14 05:40:54
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ReSharper: Alt-Enter : "Fix the problem"
and maybe not most used but at least frequently used in Visual Studio:
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-M : add method stub, very useful for TDD
F9 : toggle breakpoint
Brian Rasmussen
2009-01-14 05:54:46
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ctrl shift B - building solution
ctrl K F - to format xml
ctrl m o - to expand and collapse methods.
ctrl shift f - global find and replace
Jobo
2009-01-14 05:57:04
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I often used F12 for finding the declaration of the function/variable and Shift+F12 for finding all references.
BeowulfOF
2009-01-14 06:00:24
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Resolve a type... i.e. add a "using" directive automatically:
[Ctrl]+.followed by[Ret]
The [Ctrl]+. brings up the smart-tag window; the [Ret] accepts the default choice.
for example:
StringBuilder[Ctrl]+.,[Ret]
adds using System.Text; to the class header.
Marc Gravell
2009-01-14 06:19:55
Holy crap that's useful! I use the right-click version all the time, but that's gold.
ctacke
2009-01-14 14:56:34
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Build, whatever that may be assigned to in the IDE of the Day.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2009-01-14 06:26:12
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In Visual Studio,
CTRL+K, D to format the entire document.
F5 and CTRL+F5 to run solution with or without debugging.
CTRL+Space Trigger Intellisense dropdown.
"prop" TAB TAB for easy properties.
nsr81
2009-01-14 14:26:29
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CTRL + F to search
CTRL + I to incrementally search
CTRL + SHIFT + F to search the whole project
I do a lot of searching...
Ty
2009-01-14 14:32:56
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For Eclipse:
- CTRL + S to save
- CTRL + space for code completion
- CTRL + . and CTRL + , cycle down/up through compile errors
- CTRL + 1 bring up quick fix menu for compile errors
- ALT + SHIFT + L to extract local variable
- ALT + SHIFT + M to extract a method
Otherwise the most useful ones for me are the version control shortcuts for my Eclipse SVN plugin.
Also, not an IDE shortcut, but perhaps the most important one I use, WINDOWS + L to lock my computer when I leave.
Instantsoup
2009-01-14 14:36:35
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In Visual Studio:
- CTRL + T, A Run all tests
- CTRL + T, C Run all test from this class
- CTRL + T, T Run current test method
- CTRL + T, CTRL + A Debug all tests
- CTRL + T, CTRL + C Debug all test from this class
- CTRL + T, CTRL + T Debug current test method
- CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE Reshow parameter/overload list
Davy Landman
2009-01-14 14:42:56