Virtual Academy write-up: Visual Studio Tips and Tricks, Debugging

While cooking myself some comforting tofu stirfry (I’m not a vegetarian but I used to be and I love vegetarian food) I started watching the What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 live event online. Here are my notes with some screen shots for the lazy dev ;)

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Keyboard short cuts

Alt + arrow up or down moves a line of code up or down

Ctrl + K, Ctrl + D Format selection or line

Ctrl + E, Ctrl + D Format document

Alt + F12 Peek to definition (you can even edit the code in the window)

Ctrl + K , C Comment selection or line

Ctrl + K, U Uncomment

Ctrl + M , Ctrl + H Hide/Collapse section

Map mode – shows the code as tiny image maps instead of the scroll bar in the editor

Found under Tools – Options – Text Editor – All Languages – Scroll Bar

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Color coding indicated unsaved changes in document – yellow for unsaved, green when saved

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There is autobrace completion

Updates pending icon next to the Quick Launch

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Quick Launch (added in VS12) allows you to search anything!

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Performance and Diagnostics tools under Debug, all tools under same place. Only what can be used will be suggested.

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And that is it. Hope you’ve learned something, and that I saved you some time :) I love MS Virtual Academy! If you find the time, watch and learn, there is plenty to choose from :)

Comments

FYI, you can get to the Scroll Bar Options by right-clicking on the scroll bar itself and clicking "Scroll Bar Options" in the context menu. 

Good point, MUCH easier :) 

The scroll bar map mode is so freakin' cool, isn't it? 

Yeah I quite like it! 

nice look, congratulations 

So great! I've activated it on my VS2012!

Thank's for the tips (and for the blog too) 

Informative post! :D.
I also use Ctrl + M, L for full document expand and Ctrl + M, O for collapse to definitions.
And Ctrl + E, F for format selection. 

Nice! Alt + arrow up or down moves that line of code or selection (sweet!) 

Last modified on 2013-12-13