This shortcut allows you to either expand or shrink selection around natural block scope checkpoints (see animation above.)

I'll kick this article off with an example of my most favorite keyboard shortcut in VSCode. Shrink or expand text selection vscode keyboard shortcut (YouTube video) Open shrink or expand text selection on a separate page. Shrink or Expand VSCode Selection Platform I avoided obvious ones and focused on extremely useful shortcuts that are not easy to figure out. To create this list, I went through dozens of commonplace VSCode keyboard shortcuts. If you already know several basic VSCode shortcuts you might want to further improve your productivity by learning about the lesser known key combos. Or watch vscode keyboard shortcuts on YouTube to speed up learning process 🙂 Animations were created to demonstrate each use case.

Just scroll down through this list to see each vscode keyboard shortcut in action. Having said this.we will start this tutorial! (Ctrl + K was pressed) Waiting for second key of chord. When you press Ctrl + K you will notice vscode status bar change to a new message that says: It was added to increase the number of shortcuts you can use. In VSCode, aside from simple key combinations the Ctrl + K combo initiates a special action that requires second key of chord. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread.All VSCode Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows) All VSCode Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac OS X) Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer' the responses that resolved your issue, and to click 'Unmark as Answer' if not. Resharper / Options / KeyBoard & Menus / Set to Visual Studio / Apply and Saveīesides, if your issue persists, you can also have a look at the thread: Setting to Resharper / Options / KeyBoard & Menus / None / Apply and Save >Yes I have Resharper installed but even if I go to Tools > Options > Env > Keyboard > Reset, I still cannot get ALT-F12 to execute a 'Peek Definition' for me.

Then, press Ctrl (or whichever modifier key is selected in Options), and click on the type or member.

Select the option Open definition in peek view and click In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 and later, there is a new way to peek view a definition by using the mouse.

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