Top 10 Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Playing with keyboard shortcuts is very interesting and reduce the head-ache of using mouse again and again while programming with visual studio IDE. Actually, keyboard shortcuts also enhance your productivity and make your programming life easy and convenient. So, I decided to share a list of top 10 visual studio keyboard shortcuts that's are amazing and very helpful.

1. F5 & Ctrl-F5

   F5 is used to start your project in debug mode and Ctrl-F5 is used to start your project without debug mode.
   

2. F7 & Shift-F7

   F7 is used to show code view of your webpage and Shift-F7 is used to show design view of your webpage.
   

3. F6 / Shift-F6 / Ctrl-Shift-B

   All of the above shortcuts are used to build the project or solutions.
   

4. Ctrl-Shift-A & Alt-Shift-A

   Ctrl-Shift-A is used to add new item to your project and Alt-Shift-A is used to add existing item to your project.
   

5. Ctrl-K + Ctrl-C & Ctrl-K + Ctrl-U

   Ctrl-K + Ctrl-C is used to do comment a selected block of code and Ctrl-K + Ctrl-U is used to do uncomment a selected block of code.
   

6. Ctrl-M + Ctrl-O & Ctrl-M + Ctrl-P

   Ctrl-M + Ctrl-O is used to collapse all code to definitions and Ctrl-M + Ctrl-P is used to expand all code.
   

7. Ctrl-K + Ctrl-S

   Ctrl-K + Ctrl-S is used to surrounded a block of code to an specific block or control.
   

8. Ctrl-(+) + Ctrl-.

   Ctrl-(+) + Ctrl-. is used to display smarttag under the red line that provides the options for fixing the code problem.
   

9. Ctrl-Shift-Enter & Ctrl-Enter

   Ctrl-Shift-Enter is used to add a blank line after the cursor line means current line and Ctrl-Enter is used to add a blank line after the cursor line means current line.
   

10. F4 & Ctrl-Alt-L

    F4 is used to show property window and Ctrl-Alt-L is used to show solution explorer.