Chapter 15: Learning Keyboard Shortcuts

During this book, we have analyzed some shortcuts that help us improve our productivity, using a combination of some keys to perform common actions in the IDE and source code. Visual Studio includes some useful shortcuts by default, but we also have the possibility of creating our own shortcuts, depending on our needs or common operations that we need to perform daily.

In this chapter, we will provide a summary of the most important shortcuts included by default in Visual Studio 2022 and a section that shows how to create our own.

We will review the following topics in this chapter:

• The most-used shortcuts for use in source code
• The most common shortcuts for use in the IDE
• Creating custom shortcuts

When working with Visual Studio, it is extremely important that we know the keyboard shortcuts so that we can carry out operations quickly. This will prevent you from wasting time on repetitive tasks, such as formatting...