Favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts [closed]

Question

What is your favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcut? I'm always up for leaving my hands on the keyboard and away from the mouse!

One per answer please.

Answer 1

Stock Visual Studio? F12 - Edit.GoToDefinition.

Having DevExpress' Refactor! installed means that Ctrl + ` is my all-time fave, though ;)

Answer 2

Ctrl+Shift+F

Good old Find In Files.

Answer 3

Ctrl+Shift+V paste / cycle through the clipboard ring

Answer 4

I like Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M. To expand/collapse the current code block.

Answer 5

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V to duplicate the current line

Ctrl+L to delete the current line

Ctrl+F3 to search for the current selection

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+K to create a bookmark (which are useful)

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+N to go to the next bookmark

And, here is something even more interesting:
Press Ctrl+/ to put the cursor into a box where you can type commands.

For example, Pressing Ctrl+/ and type ">of ", now start typing the name of a file in your project, and it will autocomplete. This is a very fast way to open files in the current solution.

Answer 6

Visual Studio 2005/2008 keybinding posters:

• Visual C# 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster
• Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster
• Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster
• Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster

These don't cover customizations, but they're good reference materials and definitely helpful for finding new shortcuts.

Also, a macro that dumps all the current bindings to a HTML file:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000315.html