Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks for Developers

1. Working in Full Screen Mode in Visual Studio
   
   
   1. Alt+Shift+Enter is the shortcut to enter to fullscreen mode in Visual Studio
   2. Its sometimes really helpful and more appealing for developers to work in full screen mode
   
   
2. Editing
   
   
   
   
   
   1. For Copying a line in the IDE just go to the start of the line and press Ctrl+C,there is no need to select anything
   2. For Pasting a line just go to the start of the line and just press Ctrl+V
   3. For Deleting a line just go to the start of the line and press Ctrl+X, this is not actually delete but its similar to cut if you do Ctrl+X on current line and go to some other place in your code and do Ctrl+V then it will paste the same line there.
    
3. Expanding and Collapsing the code units
   
   
   1. This nice little shortcuts has saved me a lot of time.Whenever i am working on a large piece of code i always get confused and make some changes in other Method or property because they were looking similar.
   2. But now with this shortcut i collapse one method as soon as it is finished.
   3. The shortcut is Ctrl+M+M.
   4. Just go to the beginning or end of the method or property or any code block and hit the shortcut it will expand or collapse the code block comparing to its present state.
   5. If you want to collapse all your code units or blocks to their definitions then the shortcut to achieve this is Ctrk+M+O or Ctrl+M Ctrl+O.This is also a very handy shortcut which helps a lot in development.
    
4. Automatic Text Indentation and Formatting
   
   
   1. This shortcut helps me to write beautiful and decorative code which is easy to understand by any person.
   2. Shortcut is just press Ctrl+K+D.
   3. This works not only in C# and VB code behind but it works well in aspx pages.
   4. If you want to just format the selected piece of code then just press Ctrl+K+F