Some languages (like SQL) have a long standing tradition of using upper case for the keywords. But to me, it’s kind of hard to type in upper case, but at the same time I like the way it looks when a stored procedure is nicely cap’d. This video shows you how to select a word, and make it all Uppercase, or all Lowercase. It can also be done from the Edit menu.
[CTRL]+U = Make Lowercase (this is weird to me, they seem backwards)
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #024 English Transcription:
Today’s Visual Studio trick of the day Trick number 24 is a video re-post of the original trick published in August of 2007 by Sara Ford.
Today’s trick is using the keyboard shortcut to convert your selection to Upper or Lower case. So we have something selected you can press [CTRL]+[U] and that will convert the entire selection to lower case and [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[U] will convert your entire selection to upper case.
This is particularly useful when I am working with SQL so [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[U] and you can uppercase all of these SQL keywords. I am sure there are plenty of other uses for it but that seems to be when I find myself wanting to uppercase a large number of single items selections.
What a waste of one keystroke and improper use of both...
Ctrl+U should be a toggle which would save a keystroke.
If this was not done that why aren't the keystrokes reversed at least Ctrl+U would be way more sensible if it were converted to UPPERCASE and Ctrl+Shift+U would convert to lowercase.
Although having two combinations seems an overkill, yet the keystrokes need not be reversed and make sense in a way. Because shift is associate with upper case and obviously they couldn't use Ctrl+C for case, so Ctrl+U was next best option.
Just my two cents.........
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What a waste of one keystroke and improper use of both...
Ctrl+U should be a toggle which would save a keystroke.
If this was not done that why aren't the keystrokes reversed at least Ctrl+U would be way more sensible if it were converted to UPPERCASE and Ctrl+Shift+U would convert to lowercase.
Oh well ... can't blame Scott or Sara for this :D
Although having two combinations seems an overkill, yet the keystrokes need not be reversed and make sense in a way. Because shift is associate with upper case and obviously they couldn't use Ctrl+C for case, so Ctrl+U was next best option.
Just my two cents.........