The mouse if cool, but it is not the user interface that an advance user should use, at least that is my opinion anyway. If you really want to rock your programming experience in your IDE you need to use the keyboard.
Because I have recently being using VS a lot I though I should let people know some cool shortcuts I use:
- Navigate to definition
- You can press F12 to go to the declaration of the current selected object.
- Toggle a break point
- You can create a break point by using F9.
- Go to next item in task list or search results
- Yo can do that by using F8. This is very useful when you use the to do list a lot (whici I do ).
- Go to previous item in task list or search results
- This is the same action a the above, but instead of going forward you are going blackguards. For this you can use Shift + F8.
- Start debugging
- You can start the debugging by pressing F5
- Stop debugging
- You can stop debugging by going Shift + F5
These are just some examples. You can find a great poster here. You should print it out and put it somewhere you can see it :)
