Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.
#64 Keyboard Shortcut to Display Quick Info Tooltip
Wednesday, March 11 2009
As you mouse over a method in the Editor, a nice tooltip (as seen in the image below) is displayed for you showing you general information about the method, parameters, overloads, possible exceptions, and other documentation pulled from the meta data about the method (including your custom comments/documentation). This video shows you how to enable the tooltip, without having to leave the keyboard.
Snippets / Notes:
[CTRL]+[K]+[I] Invoke Quick Info. The command is Edit.QuickInfo, in case your keybindings are different.
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #064 English Transcription:
Today’s visual studio video trick of the day trick No. 64 was in original blog post by Sara Ford. She talks about that quick info for a function, so as you mouse over a function we get this nice little pop up and that’s great if you are using the mouse you can also use this icon here which will display quick info but if you are on the key board and your cursor is inside of a method you can do a [CTRL]+[K],[I] and that will display that pop up for you so that’s offal nice. That’s bound to edit dot(.) quick info so if you are in your keyboard shortcuts if it doesn’t work for you, you can look up edit dot(.) quick info and you can see if your binding is little bit different you can see mine is [CTRL]+[K],[I]. Will see ya on trick N0. 65.
1 comment(s)
Excellent quick tip. I love using keyboard on VS.NET.