Visual Studio Productivity Tips

In this episode, Robert is joined by Kendra Havens. Every version of Visual Studio introduces new productivity features. If you want to see some of the ones introduced in Visual Studio 2019, check out Kendra's video here. But what about the ones that have been in Visual Studio for a while that you may have missed? To see some of those, watch this video. Kendra shows:

- Navigate backward [T03:55]
- Solution Explorer tips [T04:55]
- Editor context menu (Alt + `) [T06:40]
- Keyboard command mapping [T09:30]
- Right-click on .sln, Open With [T13:00]
- Clipboard History (Ctrl + Shift + V) [T14:10]
- Go to recent files (Ctrl + T + R) [T15:10]
- Go to last edit location (Ctrl + Shift + Backspace)[T15:20]
- Multi-caret editing [T16:10]
- Using Git in Team Explorer [T19:00]
- Code snippets (Ctrl + K, Ctrl + X) [T24:55]

Resources:

[christophem]

I've just unwrap timecode to activate links
- Navigate backward 03:55
- Solution Explorer tips 04:55
- Editor context menu (Alt + `) 06:40
- Keyboard command mapping 09:30
- Right-click on .sln, Open With 13:00
- Clipboard History (Ctrl + Shift + V) 14:10
- Go to recent files (Ctrl + T + R) 15:10
- Go to last edit location (Ctrl + Shift + Backspace)15:20
- Multi-caret editing 16:10
- Using Git in Team Explorer 19:00
- Code snippets (Ctrl + K, Ctrl + X) 24:55

[dougcunha]

Is always a pleasure to hear Kendra. She has such a good mood. Love it! Thanks for tips.

[ga]

This was just great, and this Kendra is so captivating with just a very quiet voice, I just loved it.

[FredrikHistherRasch]

The tick ´ is called Acute accent (or "accent aigu" in French) and backtick ` is Grave accent (or "accent grave" in French). And while on the topic, the hat ^ is called Circumflex (or "accent circonflexe" in French).

[GaryJohnWalker]

And how many people stopped/started this vid every 20 seconds or so to try out these tips?

[StephenJWalter]

Great video. Well focused and presented. I already knew a lot of this stuff, but picked up several very useful things that were new to me. Quick jumping to Team Explorer and editing in the diff window for example.

[RobMartens]

24:10 I assume that's "OOBE", for "out of box experience"; no installing extensions or third party utilities to get the diff feature, it's already there on first start.

Another fantastic video! I always learn something when this channel uploads. Ctrl+; for example, which I had no idea existed, or that multi-caret stuff. Keep up the great content!

[minkumaxable]

It is awesome, i am using visual studio from so many years and this is something i was not aware.... Thanks a ton....

[rollcanja]

I only watch this because of Miss Kendra Havens. :P :)

[malukishtiaq]

excellent. waiting for the next video Visual Studio ShortCut Team.

[Daysra]

Been using VS for 10 years, didn't know about Shft Alt .

[DuelingTreeMike]

Navigate code (cursor position back) also works if your mouse has a back button. The older MS Curve mouse (which I love and still use today and I wish MS would bring it back!) has a back button that works very well. I can nav really deep forward and instantly nav back by a click of the thumb on the mouse.

[arugollu]

Great video. I noted down several tips. I know difficult to remember all. I will try the ones that I frequently use like control+;, control [ s, control K S, etc. Thanks for sharing in a single video.

[theitalian]

The guest seems to be a really nice person ... I like her she's awesome :))) :D

[Jashobantac]

Ctrl+ - is the best keyboard shortcut.. this is the first thing I configure when I use any IDE like Eclipse or Pycharm... Visual Studio has the best keymaps...

[eaj]

I always turn on "Track Active Document" and I don't know why it is off by default. There are many demos where this is not turned on and I can't tell what document the presenter is actually in. If you present anything or do demos, turn this on please. Why would you ever want something in the solution explorer selected if it isn't what you are looking at on the screen?

[TechWithDnes]

How we can change the line-height of the font in Visual Studio? :D

[vinaysahu]

All short cut keys are not working in latest VS2019 version 16.2.3. like - Go to recent files (Ctrl + T + R) [T15:10]

[ramialshareef]

Right-click + x has been there all along to open file location in explorer

[pramilgawande]

@Kendra Are you actually running Windows on Mac? Or connected to a VM?