Five shortcuts to boost your productivity

Mads Kristensen

Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we’ve put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio.

In the video, we cover the following shortcuts:

Ctrl + D Duplicate lines
Ctrl + Shift + L Delete whole line
Shift + Alt + . Select next occurrence
Alt + select Vertical (box) selection
Alt + Ctrl + mouse-click Insert multiple cursors

There are many other features for editing your code. One way to discover them is to look in the Edit menu.

Image edit menu

Happy coding!