Visual Studio (2017) Cheat Sheet

vs2017-cheatsheet.md

Visual Studio 2017 Shortcuts

Navigation

• <ALT+SHIFT+ENTER> Toggle Fullscreen
• <CTRL+K, O> Switch between header/source
• <CTRL+,> quick open & navitate to anything (by filename, type name, ...)
• <CTRL+T> quick open any
• <CTRL+G> Go to to line
• <CTRL+]> jump to matching brace/bracket
• <CTRL+SHIFT+F> find(/&replace) all
• <ALT+K> CMake menu (hit enter for build all-action)
• <CTRL+-> Navigate Backwards
• <CTRL+SHIFT+-> Navigate Forwards

IntelliSense

• <ALT+F12> Peek definition
• <F12>, <CTRL+MouseLeft> Go to definition

Building

• <ALT+K> CMake menu (hit enter for build all-action)
• <F7> build solution
• <ALT+CTRL+O> focus Output/Build window
• <ALT+K, B> (CMake) Build All

Debugging

• <F5> Start/Continue Debugging
• <SHIFT+F5> Stop Debugging
• <F9> toggle breakpoint
• <F10> step over
• <F11> step into
• <SHIFT+F11> step out

GitHub / Team Explorer

• <CTRL+0, CTRL+G> Go to GitHub Changes
• <CTRL+0, CTRL+Y> Go to GitHub Sync

VS Extensions

• VSBlockJumper (CTRL+ALT+Up, CTRL+ALT+Down, and with SHIFT for select in Edit.Jump*)