Angel6/Visual Studio Shortcuts/Shortcuts.md

Copy/Paste

Key Combination	Description
Ctrl + Z	Undo
Ctrl + Shift + Z	Redo
Ctrl + X	Cut (and entire line)
Ctrl + C	Copy
Ctrl + V	Paste

Text Manipulation

Key Combination	Description
Ctrl + Click	Select current word
Alt + Drag	Select area for multi-line edit
Alt + Up/Down	Move lines

Search & Navigate

Key Combination	Description
F12	Go to reference
Ctrl + T	Go to...
Ctrl + ;	Search Solution Explorer
Ctrl + Tab	Cycle open documents
Ctrl + -	Step backwards in cursor position
Ctrl + Shift + -	Step forwards in cursor position
Ctrl + Shift + F	Find All
Ctrl + K + K	Set/Remove Bookmark
Ctrl + K + N	Next Bookmark
Ctrl + K + P	Previous Bookmark

Environment

Key Combination	Description
Alt + Shift + Enter	Full Screen

Coding

Key Combination	Description
Ctrl + Shift + B	Build
Ctrl + .	Auto-complete suggestions
Ctrl + R + R	Rename variable/value
Ctrl + K + C	Comment selected text
Ctrl + K + U	Uncomment selected text
Ctrl + M + M	Expand/Collapse code
Ctrl + M + O	Collapse code to definition level
Ctrl + Q	Quick Launch

Debugging

Key Combination	Description
F5	Build and Run
F10	Step Over
F11	Step Into

Key Bindings

Install AutoHotKeys from https://autohotkey.com

Press Win + R to open Run.. dialog. Type shell:startup to open the Startup folder.

Inside that folder create a file called shortcuts.ahk and it's contents as follows.

#q::
	Send, !{F4}
Return

#w::
	Send, ^{F4}
Return

Then this file will run every time your computer starts. As this is the first time, save the file, then double-click it to run it now so your shortcuts start working without having to restart your computer.

Now pressing the following keys will work.

Key Combination	Description
Win + W	Close current window
Win + Q	Close current program

Screenshots

Install LightShot from https://app.prntscr.com/

Right-click the Taskbar Icon then click Options. Change the General Hotkey to your desired shortcut. In my case I use Ctrl + Win + S

Snippets

Type the snippet below and then double-tab to execute

Key Combination	Description
///	Create Summary comment
ctor	Create constructor function
region	Create region

Surround Snippets

Key Combination	Description
Ctrl + K + S	Surround With

The only snippet I use is Region.

Built in snippets are stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C#. Open notepad as administrator then open the files to edit them as desired.

To add your own, go to your Documents folder then into Visual Studio 2017\Code Snippets\Visual C# folder and create a sub-folder. Inside place your snippet files. Finally in Visual Studio, go to Tools -> Code Snippet Manager and click Add then select your folder. Now restart Visual Studio.

For surround by region I change the Title and shortcut to region removing the prepended # so I don't have to type Ctrl + K + S #region instead I can just now type Ctrl + K + S T Tab which looks long but when you get used to typing its quicker to select the area of code and tap out that sequence than it is to type #region above the code, scroll below it, add new lines, type #endregion then new line again. I also fix the newlines around it for how I typically select the text starting at the line in question, and ending at the line below where I want the region to finish.

My C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC#\Snippets\1033\Visual C#\pp_region.snippet file now looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
	<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
		<Header>
			<Title>region</Title>
			<Shortcut>region</Shortcut>
			<Description>Code snippet for #region</Description>
			<Author>Microsoft Corporation</Author>
			<SnippetTypes>
				<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
				<SnippetType>SurroundsWith</SnippetType>
			</SnippetTypes>
		</Header>
		<Snippet>
			<Declarations>
				<Literal>
					<ID>name</ID>
					<ToolTip>Region name</ToolTip>
					<Default>MyRegion</Default>
				</Literal>
			</Declarations>
			<Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[#region $name$

		$selected$ $end$
	#endregion
	]]>
			</Code>
		</Snippet>
	</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>