Favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts

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Adam Neal picture Adam Neal · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 125.4k times · Source

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

Glennular picture Glennular · Sep 19, 2008

Ctrl + - and the opposite Ctrl + Shift + -.

Move cursor back (or forwards) to the last place it was. No more scrolling back or PgUp/PgDown to find out where you were.

This switches open windows in Visual Studio:

Ctrl + tab and the opposite Ctrl + Shift + tab

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