Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Layouts

Incremental search can also be thought of as live search. The cursor highlights the first finding as you’re typing the search term. [CTRL]+[I] = Incremental Search [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[I] (Back Search) [F3] – Find Next [SHIFT]+[F3] – Find Previous

Resizing internal floating windows in Visual Studio? Easy with the mouse right. Just a simple drag-n-drop. But for you keyboard fanatics, did you know you can resize floating windows from using keyboard shortcuts? This one will win bets in a Best of Visual Studio contest. [ALT], [SPACE] = Context menu for floating window

Show and Hide White Space in documents. [CTRL]+[R] + [CTRL]+[W] = Toggle Show|Hide White Space [Footnote] Jan 8th, 8:15pm Sorry for my voice in today’s video’s – I’m currently befriending a bottle of Vitamin C to try and keep this sore throat in check. But I’m already behind on my new years resolution. There are…

Visual Studio has many toolbars. The toolbars inside Tool Windows can be access from the keyboard. This video trick will show you how to move focus from the Tool Window, up onto the Toolbar, and select a specif icon. [SHIFT]+[ALT] = Jump to Toolbar inside a focused Tool window. [ALT]+[SHIFT] = Does not work, because…