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Most useful Visual Studio capabilities and tools [closed]

I feel like I've been neglecting this powerful tool and not using it to full capacity. What are the most useful Visual Studio capabilities or tools that you use most often?

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Steven Avatar asked Nov 09 '10 21:11

Steven


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Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D


Reformat your Code
And you can also press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C to comment a block of code, Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U to uncomment a block of code.
There is somthing I really like in VS where you can press F12 to go to the defenition of a variable or class...etc

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Mohamad Alhamoud Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 12:09

Mohamad Alhamoud


Auto-completion of certain structures like for/while/switch/try etc when you hit your tab key twice after typing the first keyword, e.g: type "for" and then hit tab twice. Love it! :)

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Mr. Smith Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 12:09

Mr. Smith