Learning keyboard shortcuts

So far, I have kept my promise not to bore you with unending lists of keyboard shortcuts that you will have no chance of memorizing and putting to good use. Instead, for the last topic in this chapter, I would like to show you a neat Visual Studio extension that can help you memorize shortcuts for all your favorite actions.

Note that a future chapter does a deep dive into Visual Studio extensions and so we will not go into detail on them at this time.

Installing the Learn the Shortcut extension

In this exercise, we will install a Visual Studio extension written by Mads Kristensen. This extension monitors your actions and displays the keyboard shortcut for any command that you execute. In this way, it helps you learn the shortcuts that you need the most:

1. Access the Extensions | Manage Extensions menu item in Visual Studio.
2. Then, search for Learn the Shortcut and, once found, click the Download button.
3. Next, close all instances of...