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Some of the Important Shortcuts for Visual Studio Code

Check out this handy cheat sheet of shortcuts for Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE, including a link to an exhaustive list of all VS shortcuts!

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Visual studio code is a Great editor for the web development. I have started using it and I’m loving it more and more. For any editor shortcut keys are important you can do lots more without moving to mouse with a shortcut. In this blog post, we are going to learn about shortcuts for Visual Studio Code.

  • Ctrl + P:  Goto File, You can move to any file of open solution/folder in Visual Studio code.
  • Ctrl + Shift + O : Goto Symbol, You can move to any function, variable or symbol of the current file.
  • F12 : Goto Definition – You can move to the definition of symbol or function with this command
  • Ctrl + G : Goto line, You can move to particular line number
  • Alt + Left: Navigate  between files goes to the left side of files
  • Alt+ Right: Navigate between files goes to the right side of files
  • Alt + F12: Peek definition, You can see preview of code for a function
  • Ctrl + Shift + D: Debug folder or file.
  • Ctrl + Shift + F: Search in all files.
  • Ctrl + Shift + H: Replace in all the files
  • Ctrl + T: Go to symbol in all files
  • Ctrl + B : Toggle Slider Bar
  • Ctrl + 1: Focus Left Editor
  • Ctrl+ 2: Focus Right Editor
  • F2: Rename symbol and function
  • Ctrl + Shift + X : Goto Extension Window
  • Ctrl + J: Toggle Panels
  • Ctrl + ` : Open terminal in VSCode
  • Ctrl + Shift + U: Show output Window
  • Ctrl + Shift + M : Show problems, Where you can see all the problems related to code and warnings.

    You can find all the shortcuts of Visual Studio code from the following link.
    https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/keybindings

    That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!!
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