Stupid Visual Studio Tricks, Part 4
Part 1: Navigate with the back/forward buttons on your mouse
Part 2: Fix annoying jumping toolbars
Part 3: Using the find window to quickly open a file
A couple quick ones:
- Click with your middle mouse button (or scroll wheel) on a tab to close a document window.
- Window > Close All Documents (not where I thought it should be)
- Re-map Control-W to Close Document (like IE/Firefox)
- Tools | Options | Keyboard
- In ‘Show commands containing’ type SelectCurrentWord
- Click Remove
- In ‘Show commands containing’ type File.Close
- In ‘Press shortcut keys’ type Control-W
- Click ‘Assign’ and ‘OK’
- Use Control-Backspace and Control-Delete to delete entire words. Control-Delete is especially helpful when the cursor is at the end of the line and you want to delete the line break and the leading tabs/spaces of the next line.
- Use Control-. to bring up the smart tag for adding using statements.
- Use Control-I to quickly search through a document. After you’ve located a match, hit Control-I again to cycle through other matches.
- Right-drag code to invoke context menu for with options for moving or copying (if you can’t be bothered to hold control while dragging).