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

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