weddinglosa.blogg.se - Visual studio 2017 shortcut cheat sheet

Knowing how to find the file you need faster. Knowing some shortcuts can help you to get your work done faster. So you are spending much time staring at your code editor of choice. You are probably working 8 hours every workday and hopefully for you the most time of these working hours you can code. Now you have a quick way of getting to your own cheat sheet of shortcuts.Visual Studio Code lets you access almost every feature it provides by a command that is accessible via the command palette or via a shortcut on your keyboard. Now when I click on my ‘Shortcuts’ on my Visual Studio menu, my document will launch for quick access. I put mine next to the Help menu, of course you can place it anywhere you’d like. Once Selected, highlight the External Command and click on the Move Down button until it’s at the end of your menu items.Scroll down to Tools on the left plane and then select the External Command and the proper number from step 3.Click on the Commands tab and then click on Add Command.Right click on the space next to the Help menu item and then at the bottom click on Customize.

Now we need to add it to our menu bar.

In this case I am using Word (winword.exe).

Fill in the appropriate Command and Arguments.

(We’ll need that position number for later). In my example below I called my shortcut ‘Shortcuts’ and it’s in the 4th position.

Create a new menu and note what position it is on the list of entries.

Next, from within Visual Studio go to Tools –> External Tools.

Start by creating a Word document (or other file) that will contain your notes (your cheat sheet).

All you have to do is create an external menu item. And you can do this with a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, OneNote, etc. I recently decided it might be better to just create an option right in the Visual Studio Menu bar that would allow me to gain access to that same Word document with one click. How many productive Microsoft Visual Studio shortcut keys have you learned but managed to forget? I used to have a shortcut key created using AutoHotkey that would allow me to get to a Word document with a collection of (less often used) shortcuts as a cheat sheet.