Instant Visual Studio Productivity Boost

Stephen Walther can save you hours of time with these Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know:

  1. You don’t need to select a line to copy or delete it
  2. You can add a namespace automatically by pressing CTRL-.
  3. Never create properties by hand.
  4. You can remove and sort unnecessary using statements.
  5. Use CTRL-k+c to comment out code.
  6. You can close all documents except the current one.
  7. You can open a database by double-clicking the database file in App_Data.
  8. You can copy a file or folder into a project by dragging and dropping.
  9. Use CTRL-SPACE to perform statement completion.
  10. Add new items by pressing CTRL-N or CTRL-SHIFT+A.
  11. You don’t need to type file extensions when adding a file.

Highly recommend.

2 Responses to “Instant Visual Studio Productivity Boost”

  1. Rem says:

    Nice blog…

  2. damn straight! I use ALT-W-L more often than I acknowledge the existence of bacteria (and darn it, i do that a lot)

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