Find-any-action shortcut Visual Studio

Question

Eclipse has Ctrl+3, Intellij has Ctrl+a for finding just about anything in the whole IDE

• refactorings
• settings
• views, perspectives
• ...

These are magic, sort of uber-shortcuts that makes you effecient in a new IDE in a matter of hours. I can't find the corresponding shortcut in Visual Studio whether with Resharper or not. Is there something of the sort?

Answer 1

My experience from switching between IntelliJ and VS was that one can't compare individual features and nice-to-haves. In VS, I have specific tasks or aims and then, there are shortcuts for it. Many people customize them and log in to VS using LiveId, so that they have their own stuff.

Resharper has it for its settings but you access it from the menu, not globally. In VS generally (depending on you version) there's this "quick find" in the upper right corner CTRLq.

As for finding classes, files, methods etc. - use CTRLt in R#. Awesome feature.

For defining your own set of shortcuts, you need to use the (somewhat painful) menu under the tools.

Welcome to VS world. We've got it all and you'll love it. But you'll be a bit annoyed when we have it in a less great way than what you're used to. :)