Tips for Microsoft Visual Studio that will make your life easier.

When it comes to the world of programming, Microsoft Visual Studio is one of the best design tools for websites and apps. Whether for IOS, Windows, Android and even the Azure cloud. Thanks to it, we can use the vast majority of programming languages such as C++, Java, Visual Basic, and more... Here are some tips for Microsoft Visual Studio that will make your life much easier.

Visual Studio will allow us as developers to make websites and web applications from scratch. Either to develop sites, web applications or even web services of any environment that can be compatible with the .Net platform. This allows us to create applications that will be able to communicate between workstations, game consoles, mobiles and many more. 

Since 2005, Microsoft decided to launch free Express versions, which are basically aimed at a much less expert public such as students or even amateur programmers. The free versions of Visual Studio are very similar to the more premium versions, but these lack some of the more advanced integration functions such as: Visual Basic Express Edition, Visual C++ Express Edition, Visual Web Developer Express Edition... 

Now that we know all the theory and we have made a brief review of Microsoft Visual Studio, we are going to tell you a few tricks that can make your life much easier when it comes to optimizing your work.

Tricks that will save you a lot of time and effort in Microsoft Visual Studio

As we have already mentioned before, Visual Studio is one of the most competent software we have on the market for developers. It is undeniable that when it comes to "coding" we will need to have a very good knowledge of the language of the programme itself. However, there are only two ways to be able to do it, either we have a good book next to our table, or we have a good blog, where we can find all our doubts. 

For this reason, from Licendi we have decided to create this blog to provide a few tools and tricks to develop your programming skills to the maximum. 

Editing tricks and tips for coding on Visual Studio

In Visual Studio we can use a large number of keyboard shortcuts that will allow us to save a lot of time in our programming. To do so, we will now describe some of the most relevant ones: 

• With the help of the multi-cursor we can edit multiple file points simultaneously. However, with the shortcuts we can do it in several different ways
  • With the mouse: Alt + Click
  • With the keyboard: Ctrl + Alt + Up/Down

• To modify our text selections
  • To move a line, simply use the keyboard shortcut "Alt + Up/Down".
  • If you need to copy some lines, simply use the key combination "Alt + Shift + Up/Down".
  • To expand a selection "Shift + Alt + Rigth/Left".

• Commenting and uncommenting
  • In order to alleviate the connections and disconnections of the code managers, it can be very useful to use the line selection by pressing the command "Ctrl+K". This command will help VS to wait for what you can do next.

• To prepare comments on the current line
  • In order to make these comments we can form a line above and place our pointer on the line itself and then use the key combination "Ctrl+Enter".

• How to copy an entire line
  • In order to save you a few clicks and keyboard shortcuts, place the cursor over the line to be copied and use the shortcut "Ctrl+C".

• Use the VS Code command palette
  • With the vast majority of programs, Microsoft Visual Studio includes a palette of commands between which you can move easily by pressing "Ctrl + Shift + P".

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