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Keyboard shortcut keys for .Net Users

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:35:00 PST

General

Shortcut

Description

Ctrl-X or
Shift-Delete

Cuts the currently selected item to the clipboard

Ctrl-C or
Ctrl-Insert

Copies the currently selected item to the clipboard

Ctrl-V or
Shift-Insert

Pastes the item in the clipboard at the cursor

Ctrl-Z or
Alt-Backspace

Undo previous editing action

Ctrl-Y or
Ctrl-Shift-Z

Redo the previous undo action

Ctrl-Shift-V or
Ctrl-Shift-Insert

Pastes an item from the clipboard ring tab of the Toolbox at the cursor in the file and automatically selects the pasted item. Cycle through the items on the clipboard by pressing the shortcut keys repeatedly

Esc

Closes a menu or dialog, cancels an operation in progress, or places focus in the current document window

Ctrl-S

Saves the selected files in the current project (usually the file that is being edited)

Ctrl-Shift-S

Saves all documents and projects

Ctrl-P

Displays the Print dialog

F7

Switches from the design view to the code view in the editor

Shift-F7

Switches from the code view to the design view in the editor

F8

Moves the cursor to the next item, for example in the TaskList window or Find Results window

Shift-F8

Moves the cursor to the previous item, for example in the TaskList window or Find Results window

Shift-F12

Finds a reference to the selected item or the item under the cursor

Ctrl-Shift-G

Opens the file whose name is under the cursor or is currently selected

Ctrl-/

Switches focus to the Find/Command box on the Standard toolbar

Ctrl-Shift-F12

Moves to the next task in the TaskList window

Ctrl-Shift-8

Moves backward in the browse history. Available in the object browser or Class View window

Alt-Left Arrow

Go back in the web browser history

Alt-Right Arrow

Go forward in the web browser history

Text Navigation

Shortcut

Description

Left Arrow

Moves the cursor one character to the left

Right Arrow

Moves the cursor one character to the right

Down Arrow

Moves the cursor down one line

Up Arrow

Moves the cursor up one line

Page Down

Scrolls down one screen in the editor window

Page Up

Scrolls up one screen in the editor window

End

Moves the cursor to the end of the current line

Home

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. If you press Home when the cursor is already at the start of the line, it will toggle the cursor between the first non-whitespace character and the real start of the line

Ctrl-End

Moves the cursor to the end of the document

Ctrl-Home

Moves the cursor to the start of the document

Ctrl-G

Displays the Go to Line dialog. If the debugger is running, the dialog also lets you specify addresses or function names to go to

Ctrl-]

Moves the cursor to the matching brace in the document. If the cursor is on an opening brace, this will move to the corresponding closing brace and vice versa

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-N

Moves to the next bookmark in the document

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-P

Moves to the previous bookmark

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-I

Displays Quick Info, based on the current language

Ctrl-Down Arrow

Scrolls text down one line but does not move the cursor. This is useful for scrolling more text into view without losing your place. Available only in text editors

Ctrl-Up Arrow

Scrolls text up one line but does not move the cursor. Available only in text editors

Ctrl-Right Arrow

Moves the cursor one word to the right

Ctrl-Left Arrow

Moves the cursor one word to the left

Ctrl-Shift-1

Navigates to the next definition, declaration, or reference of an item. Available in the object browser and Class View window. Also available in source editing windows if you have already used the Edit.GoToReference (Shift-F12) shortcut

Ctrl-Shift-2

Navigates to the previous definition, declaration, or reference of an item

Text Manipulation

Shortcut

Description

Enter

Inserts a new line

Delete

Deletes one character to the right of the cursor

Insert

Toggles between insert and overtype insertion modes

Tab

Indents the currently selected line or lines by one tab stop. If there is no selection, this inserts a tab stop

Shift-Tab

Moves current line or selected lines one tab stop to the left

Backspace or
Shift-Backspace

Deletes one character to the left of the cursor

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-C

Marks the current line or selected lines of code as a comment, using the correct comment syntax for the programming language

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-U

Removes the comment syntax from the current line or currently selected lines of code

Ctrl-T or
Shift-Enter

Swaps the characters on either side of the cursor. (For example, AC|BD becomes AB|CD.) Available only in text editors

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-L

Removes all unnamed bookmarks in the current document

Ctrl-M, Ctrl-O

Automatically determines logical boundaries for creating regions in code, such as procedures, and then hides them. This collapses all such regions in the current document

Alt-Right Arrow or
Ctrl-Spacebar

Displays statement completion based on the current language or autocompletes word if existing text unambiguously identifies a single symbol

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-\

Removes horizontal whitespace in the selection or deletes whitespace adjacent to the cursor if there is no selection

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-F

Applies the indenting and space formatting for the language as specified on the Formatting pane of the language in the Text Editor section of the Options dialog to the selected text.

Ctrl-L

Cuts all selected lines or the current line if nothing has been selected to the clipboard

Ctrl-Shift-L

Deletes all selected lines or the current line if no selection has been made

Ctrl-Enter

Inserts a blank line above the cursor

Ctrl-Shift-Enter

Inserts a blank line below the cursor

Shift-Alt-T

Moves the line containing the cursor below the next line

Ctrl-J

Lists members for statement completion when editing code

Ctrl-U

Changes the selected text to lowercase characters

Ctrl-Shift-U

Changes the selected text to uppercase characters

Ctrl-Shift-Spacebar

Displays a tooltip that contains information for the current parameter, based on the current language

Ctrl-M, Ctrl-U

Removes the outlining information for the currently selected region

Ctrl-M, Ctrl-P

Removes all outlining information from the entire document

Ctrl-R, Ctrl-P

Swaps the anchor and endpoint of the current selection

Ctrl-M, Ctrl-L

Toggles all previously marked hidden text sections between hidden and display states

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-K

Sets or removes a bookmark at the current line

Ctrl-M, Ctrl-M

Toggles the currently selected hidden text section or the section containing the cursor if there is no selection between the hidden and display states

Ctrl-K, Ctrl-H

Sets or removes a shortcut in the tasklist to the current line

Ctrl-R, Ctrl-R

Enables or disables word wrap in an editor

Ctrl-R, Ctrl-W

Shows or hides spaces and tab marks

Ctrl-Delete

Deletes the word to the right of the cursor

Ctrl-Backspace

Deletes the word to the left of the cursor

Ctrl-Shift-T

Transposes the two words that follow the cursor. (For example, |End Sub would be changed to read Sub End|.)

Text Selection

Shortcut

Description

Shift-Left Arrow

Moves the cursor to the left one character, extending the selection

Shift-Alt-Left Arrow

Moves the cursor to the left one character, extending the column selection

Shift-Right Arrow

Moves the cursor to the right one character, extending the selection

Shift-Alt-Right Arrow

Moves the cursor to the right one character, extending the column selection

Ctrl-Shift-End

Moves the cursor to the end of the document, extending the selection

Ctrl-Shift-Home

Moves the cursor to the start of the document, extending the selection

Ctrl-Shift-]

Moves the cursor to the next brace, extending the selection

Shift-Down Arrow

Moves the cursor down one line, extending the selection

Shift-Alt-Down Arrow

Moves the cursor down one line, extending the column selection

Shift-End

Moves the cursor to the end of the current line, extending the selection

Shift-Alt-End

Moves the cursor to the end of the line, extending the column selection

Shift-Home

Moves the cursor to the start of the line, extending the selection

Shift-Alt-Home

Moves the cursor to the start of the line, extending the column selection

Shift-Up Arrow

Moves the cursor up one line, extending the selection

Shift-Alt-Up Arrow

Moves the cursor up one line, extending the column selection

Shift-Page Down

Extends selection down one page

Shift-Page Up

Extends selection up one page

Ctrl-A

Selects everything in the current document

Ctrl-W

Selects the word containing the cursor or the word to the right of the cursor

Ctrl-=

Selects from the current location in the editor back to the previous location in the navigation history

Ctrl-Shift-Page Down

Moves the cursor to the last line in view, extending the selection

Ctrl-Shift-Page Up

Moves the cursor to the top of the current window, extending the selection

Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Right Arrow

Moves the cursor to the right one word, extending the column selection

Ctrl-Shift-Left Arrow

Moves the cursor one word to the left, extending the selection

Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Left Arrow

Moves the cursor to the left one word, extending the column selection

Project Related

Shortcut

Description

Ctrl-Shift-B

Builds the solution

Ctrl-N

Displays the New File dialog. Note: files created this way are not associated with a project. Use Ctrl-Shift-A to add a new file in a project

Ctrl-Shift-N

Displays the New Project dialog

Ctrl-O

Displays the Open File dialog

Ctrl-Shift-O

Displays the Open Project dialog

Shift-Alt-A

Displays the Add Existing Item dialog

Ctrl-Shift-A

Displays the Add New Item dialog

Ctrl-Alt-Insert

Allows you to override base class methods in a derived class when an overridable method is highlighted in the Class View pane

Window Manipulation

Shortcut

Description

Shift-Alt-Enter

Toggles full screen mode

Ctrl-+

Goes back to the previous location in the navigation history. (For example, if you press Ctrl-Home to go to the start of a document, this shortcut will take the cursor back to wherever it was before you pressed Ctrl-Home.)

Ctrl-Shift-+

Moves forward in the navigation history. This is effectively an undo for the View.NavigateBackward operation

Ctrl-F4

Closes the current MDI child window

Shift-Esc

Closes the current tool window

Ctrl-F2

Moves the cursor to the navigation bar at the top of a code view

Ctrl-Tab

Cycles through the MDI child windows one window at a time

Ctrl-F6,
Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Moves to the previous MDI child window

Alt-F6,
Ctrl-Shift-F6

Moves to the next tool window

Shift-Alt-F6

Moves to the previously selected window

F6

Moves to the next pane of a split pane view of a single document

Shift-F6

Moves to the previous pane of a document in split pane view

Ctrl-Pagedown

Moves to the next tab in the document or window (e.g., you can use this to switch the HTML editor from its design view to its HTML view

Ctrl-PageUp

Moves to the previous tab in the document or window

Designer Controller

Shortcut

Description

Shift-Alt-Enter

Toggles full screen mode

Ctrl-+

Goes back to the previous location in the navigation history. (For example, if you press Ctrl-Home to go to the start of a document, this shortcut will take the cursor back to wherever it was before you pressed Ctrl-Home.)

Ctrl-Shift-+

Moves forward in the navigation history. This is effectively an undo for the View.NavigateBackward operation

Ctrl-F4

Closes the current MDI child window

Shift-Esc

Closes the current tool window

Ctrl-F2

Moves the cursor to the navigation bar at the top of a code view

Ctrl-Tab

Cycles through the MDI child windows one window at a time

Ctrl-F6,
Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Moves to the previous MDI child window

Alt-F6,
Ctrl-Shift-F6

Moves to the next tool window

Shift-Alt-F6

Moves to the previously selected window

F6

Moves to the next pane of a split pane view of a single document

Shift-F6

Moves to the previous pane of a document in split pane view

Ctrl-Pagedown

Moves to the next tab in the document or window (e.g., you can use this to switch the HTML editor from its design view to its HTML view

Ctrl-PageUp

Moves to the previous tab in the document or window

Search & Replace

Shortcut

Description

Shift-Alt-Enter

Toggles full screen mode

Ctrl-+

Goes back to the previous location in the navigation history. (For example, if you press Ctrl-Home to go to the start of a document, this shortcut will take the cursor back to wherever it was before you pressed Ctrl-Home.)

Ctrl-Shift-+

Moves forward in the navigation history. This is effectively an undo for the View.NavigateBackward operation

Ctrl-F4

Closes the current MDI child window

Shift-Esc

Closes the current tool window

Ctrl-F2

Moves the cursor to the navigation bar at the top of a code view

Ctrl-Tab

Cycles through the MDI child windows one window at a time

Ctrl-F6,
Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Moves to the previous MDI child window

Alt-F6,
Ctrl-Shift-F6

Moves to the next tool window

Shift-Alt-F6

Moves to the previously selected window

F6

Moves to the next pane of a split pane view of a single document

Shift-F6

Moves to the previous pane of a document in split pane view

Ctrl-Pagedown

Moves to the next tab in the document or window (e.g., you can use this to switch the HTML editor from its design view to its HTML view

Ctrl-PageUp

Moves to the previous tab in the document or window

Debugging

Shortcut

Description

Ctrl-Alt-V, A

Displays the Auto window to view the values of variables currently in the scope of the current line of execution within the current procedure

Ctrl-Alt-Break

Temporarily stops execution of all processes in a debugging session. Available only in run mode

Ctrl-Alt-B

Displays the Breakpoints dialog, where you can add and modify breakpoints

Ctrl-Alt-C

Displays the Call Stack window to display a list of all active procedures or stack frames for the current thread of execution. Available only in break mode

Ctrl-Shift-F9

Clears all of the breakpoints in the project

Ctrl-Alt-D

Displays the Disassembly window

Ctrl-F9

Enables or disables the breakpoint on the current line of code. The line must already have a breakpoint for this to work

Ctrl-Alt-E

Displays the Exceptions dialog

Ctrl-Alt-I

Displays the Immediate window, where you can evaluate expressions and execute individual commands

Ctrl-Alt-V, L

Displays the Locals window to view the variables and their values for the currently selected procedure in the stack frame

Ctrl-Alt-M, 1

Displays the Memory 1 window to view memory in the process being debugged. This is particularly useful when you do not have debugging symbols available for the code you are looking at. It is also helpful for looking at large buffers, strings, and other data that does not display clearly in the Watch or Variables window

Ctrl-Alt-M, 2

Displays the Memory 2 window

Ctrl-Alt-M, 3

Displays the Memory 3 window

Ctrl-Alt-M, 4

Displays the Memory 4 window

Ctrl-Alt-U

Displays the Modules window, which allows you to view the .dll or .exe files loaded by the program. In multiprocess debugging, you can right-click and select Show Modules for all programs

Ctrl-B

Opens the New Breakpoint dialog

Ctrl-Alt-Q

Displays the Quick Watch dialog with the current value of the selected expression. Available only in break mode. Use this command to check the current value of a variable, property, or other expression for which you have not defined a watch expression

Ctrl-Alt-G

Displays the Registers window, which displays CPU register contents

Ctrl-Shift-F5

Terminates the current debugging session, rebuilds if necessary, and then starts a new debugging session. Available in break and run modes

Ctrl-Alt-N

Displays the Running Documents window that displays the set of HTML documents that you are in the process of debugging. Available in break and run modes

Ctrl-F10

Starts or resumes execution of your code and then halts execution when it reaches the selected statement. This starts the debugger if it is not already running

Ctrl-Shift-F10

Sets the execution point to the line of code you choose

Alt-NUM *

Highlights the next statement to be executed

F5

If not currently debugging, this runs the startup project or projects and attaches the debugger. If in break mode, this allows execution to continue (i.e., it returns to run mode).

Ctrl-F5

Runs the code without invoking the debugger. For console applications, this also arranges for the console window to stay open with a "Press any key to continue" prompt when the program finishes

F11

Executes code one statement at a time, tracing execution into function calls

Shift-F11

Executes the remaining lines of a function in which the current execution point lies

F10

Executes the next line of code but does not step into any function calls

Shift-F5

Available in break and run modes, this terminates the debugging session

Ctrl-Alt-V, T

Displays the This window, which allows you to view the data members of the object associated with the current method

Ctrl-Alt-H

Displays the Threads window to view all of the threads for the current process

F9

Sets or removes a breakpoint at the current line

Ctrl-F11

Displays the disassembly information for the current source file. Available only in break mode

Ctrl-Alt-W, 1

Displays the Watch 1 window to view the values of variables or watch expressions

Ctrl-Alt-W, 2

Displays the Watch 2 window

Ctrl-Alt-W, 3

Displays the Watch 3 window

Ctrl-Alt-W, 4

Displays the Watch 4 window

Ctrl-Alt-P

Displays the Processes dialog, which allows you to attach or detach the debugger to one or more running processes

Object Browser

Shortcut

Description

Ctrl-Alt-V, A

Displays the Auto window to view the values of variables currently in the scope of the current line of execution within the current procedure

Ctrl-Alt-Break

Temporarily stops execution of all processes in a debugging session. Available only in run mode

Ctrl-Alt-B

Displays the Breakpoints dialog, where you can add and modify breakpoints

Ctrl-Alt-C

Displays the Call Stack window to display a list of all active procedures or stack frames for the current thread of execution. Available only in break mode

Ctrl-Shift-F9

Clears all of the breakpoints in the project

Ctrl-Alt-D

Displays the Disassembly window

Ctrl-F9

Enables or disables the breakpoint on the current line of code. The line must already have a breakpoint for this to work

Ctrl-Alt-E

Displays the Exceptions dialog

Ctrl-Alt-I

Displays the Immediate window, where you can evaluate expressions and execute individual commands

Ctrl-Alt-V, L

Displays the Locals window to view the variables and their values for the currently selected procedure in the stack frame

Ctrl-Alt-M, 1

Displays the Memory 1 window to view memory in the process being debugged. This is particularly useful when you do not have debugging symbols available for the code you are looking at. It is also helpful for looking at large buffers, strings, and other data that does not display clearly in the Watch or Variables window

Ctrl-Alt-M, 2

Displays the Memory 2 window

Ctrl-Alt-M, 3

Displays the Memory 3 window

Ctrl-Alt-M, 4

Displays the Memory 4 window

Ctrl-Alt-U

Displays the Modules window, which allows you to view the .dll or .exe files loaded by the program. In multiprocess debugging, you can right-click and select Show Modules for all programs

Ctrl-B

Opens the New Breakpoint dialog

Ctrl-Alt-Q

Displays the Quick Watch dialog with the current value of the selected expression. Available only in break mode. Use this command to check the current value of a variable, property, or other expression for which you have not defined a watch expression

Ctrl-Alt-G

Displays the Registers window, which displays CPU register contents

Ctrl-Shift-F5

Terminates the current debugging session, rebuilds if necessary, and then starts a new debugging session. Available in break and run modes

Ctrl-Alt-N

Displays the Running Documents window that displays the set of HTML documents that you are in the process of debugging. Available in break and run modes

Ctrl-F10

Starts or resumes execution of your code and then halts execution when it reaches the selected statement. This starts the debugger if it is not already running

Ctrl-Shift-F10

Sets the execution point to the line of code you choose

Alt-NUM *

Highlights the next statement to be executed

F5

If not currently debugging, this runs the startup project or projects and attaches the debugger. If in break mode, this allows execution to continue (i.e., it returns to run mode).

Ctrl-F5

Runs the code without invoking the debugger. For console applications, this also arranges for the console window to stay open with a "Press any key to continue" prompt when the program finishes

F11

Executes code one statement at a time, tracing execution into function calls

Shift-F11

Executes the remaining lines of a function in which the current execution point lies

F10

Executes the next line of code but does not step into any function calls

Shift-F5

Available in break and run modes, this terminates the debugging session

Ctrl-Alt-V, T

Displays the This window, which allows you to view the data members of the object associated with the current method

Ctrl-Alt-H

Displays the Threads window to view all of the threads for the current process

F9

Sets or removes a breakpoint at the current line

Ctrl-F11

Displays the disassembly information for the current source file. Available only in break mode

Ctrl-Alt-W, 1

Displays the Watch 1 window to view the values of variables or watch expressions

Ctrl-Alt-W, 2

Displays the Watch 2 window

Ctrl-Alt-W, 3

Displays the Watch 3 window

Ctrl-Alt-W, 4

Displays the Watch 4 window

Ctrl-Alt-P

Displays the Processes dialog, which allows you to attach or detach the debugger to one or more running processes

Tool Window

Shortcut

Description

Ctrl-Shift-M

Toggles the Command window into or out of a mode allowing text within the window to be selected

Ctrl-Shift-C

Displays the Class View window

Ctrl-Alt-A

Displays the Command window, which allows you to type commands that manipulate the IDE

Ctrl-Alt-T

Displays the Document Outline window to view the flat or hierarchical outline of the current document

Ctrl-Alt-F

Displays the Favorites window, which lists shortcuts to web pages

Ctrl-Alt-O

Displays the Output window to view status messages at runtime

F4

Displays the Properties window, which lists the design-time properties and events for the currently selected item

Shift-F4

Displays the property pages for the item currently selected. (For example, use this to show a project's settings.)

Ctrl-Shift-E

Displays the Resource View window

Ctrl-Alt-S

Displays the Server Explorer window, which allows you to view and manipulate database servers, event logs, message queues, web services, and many other operating system services

Ctrl-Alt-R

Displays the web browser window, which allows you to view pages on the Internet

Ctrl-Alt-L

Displays the Solution Explorer, which lists the projects and files in the current solution

Ctrl-Alt-K

Displays the TaskList window, which displays tasks, comments, shortcuts, warnings, and error messages

Ctrl-Alt-X

Displays the Toolbox, which contains controls and other items that can be dragged into editor and designer windows

HTML Editor(Design view)

Shortcut

Description

Ctrl-B

Toggles the selected text between bold and normal

Ctrl-Shift-T

Decreases the selected paragraph by one indent unit

Ctrl-T

Indents the selected paragraph by one indent unit

Ctrl-I

Toggles the selected text between italic and normal

Ctrl-Shift-K

Prevents an absolutely positioned element from being inadvertently moved. If the element is already locked, this unlocks it

Ctrl-G

Toggles the grid

Ctrl-Shift-G

Specifies that elements be aligned using an invisible grid. You can set grid spacing on the Design pane of HTML designer options in the Options dialog, and the grid will be changed the next time you open a document

Ctrl-U

Toggles the selected text between underlined and normal

Ctrl-Shift-L

Displays the Bookmark dialog

Ctrl-J

Inserts

in the current HTML document

Ctrl-L

When text is selected, displays the Hyperlink dialog

Ctrl-Shift-W

Displays the Insert Image dialog

Ctrl-Alt-Up Arrow

Adds one row above the current row in the table

Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow

Adds one row below the current row in the table

Ctrl-Alt-Left Arrow

Adds one column to the left of the current column in the table

Ctrl-Alt-Right Arrow

Adds one column to the right of the current column in the table

Ctrl-Shift-Q

Toggles display of marker icons for HTML elements that do not have a visual representation, such as comments, scripts, and anchors for absolutely positioned elements

Ctrl-Page Down

Switches from design view to HTML view and vice versa

Ctrl-Q

Displays a 1-pixel border around HTML elements that support a BORDER attribute and have it set to zero, such as tables, table cells, and divisions

Hope It Helps!

The Page Life Cycle in ASP.NET

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:18:00 PST

When a web page is sent to the Web Server for processing, it goes through a sequence of steps before it finally gets displayed in the Web Browser. The following steps and events that occur in a page life cycle in ASP.NET.

Page_Init
LoadViewState
LoadPostData
Page_Load
RaisePostDataChangedEvent
RaisePostBackEvent
Page_PreRender
SaveViewState
Page_Render
Page_UnLoad

When a POST request is initiated from the client side, the Web Server traps the request and it is usually routed to an .aspx web page. The request is actually routed to the HTTP Pipeline, a chain of managed objects.

After the HTTP Page handler class is identified, the ProcessRequest() method is called which eventually fires the different page events in the life cycle of a web page. The sequence of events that takes place in the life cycle of a web page in ASP.NET are mentioned above.

To make discussion of all the events is beyond of this article. So I just mentioned some of the main event that occur when page arrive into the browser.

· Page_Init event is the first event to be triggered in the page life cycle. It is responsible for the initialization activities that are essential to create a page instance. In this phase of the page life cycle, all the server controls of the web page are initialized to their default values. However, it should be noted that the View State for a page is not available at this stage of the page life cycle and a server control of the page cannot access other server controls of the page at this phase.

· Next, the LoadViewState method is called.The load view state stage only happens when the page has been posted back. During this stage the view state data saved from the previous page visit is loaded and recursively populated into the Page’s control hierarchy. This method restores the View State information of a web page that was last saved using the SaveViewState method. You can override the LoadViewState() method to get an idea on how the viewstate is actually restored.

· The LoadPostBackData event is fired next that processes the data that was last posted to the server for all the server controls that requires the same. Note that all controls in an ASP.NET web page is identified by a unique id. The runtime now parses the controls to match their unique ids against the Name Value Collection in the View State for the control (that has its View State enabled) and updates the control with the posted data.

· The next event that gets fired is the Page_Load event that typically restores the page's control values. At this phase of the page life cycle, the web page "calls the OnLoad event method on the Page, then recursively does the same for each child control, which does the same for each of its child controls until the page and all controls are loaded." Typically, you bind data to the controls of your web form in this method or call methods write code that should be executed or loaded first before any other event of the web page is triggered.

· The RaisePostBackData and the RaisePostBackEvent events call their respective handlers if the request was a postback. The RaisePostBackEvent that executes next "notifies the server control that caused the postback that it should handle an incoming postback event."

How to do only Ascending/Descending Sort in Telerik RadGrid

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:12:00 PST

For sorting you have to first declare the event name in page design code like this:

OnSortCommand="radGridView_OnSorting"

Then add the following code snippets in server side code as follows:

C# code:

public GridSortOrder GridViewSortDirection

{

get

{

if (Session["SortDirection"] == null)

{

Session["SortDirection"] = GridSortOrder.Ascending;

}

return (GridSortOrder)Session["SortDirection"];

}

set

{

Session["SortDirection"] = value;

}

protected void radGridView_OnSorting(object sender, GridSortCommandEventArgs e)

{

if (e.SortExpression.Equals(ActiveSortExpression) && GridViewSortDirection == GridSortOrder.Ascending)

{

this.GridViewSortDirection = GridSortOrder.Ascending;

}

else if (e.SortExpression.Equals(ActiveSortExpression) && GridViewSortDirection == GridSortOrder.Descending)

{

this.GridViewSortDirection = GridSortOrder.Descending;

}

else

{

this.GridViewSortDirection = GridSortOrder.Ascending;

}

this.ActiveSortExpression = e.SortExpression;

}

And then add following codes to your BindGrid() method where you bind the GridView:

private void BindGrid()

{

radGridView.MasterTableView.AllowNaturalSort = false;

string sortExpression = this.ActiveSortExpression;

if (this.GridViewSortDirection == GridSortOrder.Ascending)

{

sortExpression += " ASC";

}

else

{

sortExpression += " DESC";

}

radGridView.Sort = sortExpression;

}

Hope It Helps!

How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:45:00 PST

You can use shortcut icons to display your logo or some other small graphic on the Windows Internet Explorer Favorites menu, address bar, and starting with Internet Explorer 7 page tabs. They have no special Web server requirements and are a great way to add brand recognition to your Web site. The following screen shot shows a shortcut icon for MSN.com on the Favourites menu, the address bar, and a page tab.

First you have to select correct size and format icon to show on address bar. Then add the <link> tag to your design code at <head> tag which looks like as follows:

head>

Hope it Helps!

Where to Use abstract key word in .net..?

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:47:00 PST

The abstract modifier can be used with classes, methods, properties, indexers, and events. Use the abstract modifier in a class declaration to indicate that a class is intended only to be a base class of other classes. Members marked as abstract, or included in an abstract class, must be implemented by classes that derive from the abstract class.

Abstract classes have the following features:

§ An abstract class cannot be instantiated.

§ An abstract class may contain abstract methods and accessors.

§ It is not possible to modify an abstract class with the sealed (C# Reference) modifier, which means that the class cannot be inherited.

§ A non-abstract class derived from an abstract class must include actual implementations of all inherited abstract methods and accessors.

§ An abstract method is implicitly a virtual method.

§ Abstract method declarations are only permitted in abstract classes.

§ The implementation is provided by an overriding method override (C# Reference), which is a member of a non-abstract class.

§ It is an error to use the static or virtual modifiers in an abstract method declaration.

Use the abstract modifier in a method or property declaration to indicate that the method or property does not contain implementation. Please check the following example. In this example, the class DerivedClass is derived from an abstract class BaseClass. The abstract class contains an abstract method, AbstractMethod, and two abstract properties, X and Y.

// Abstract Classes

using System;

abstract class BaseClass // Abstract class

{

protected int _x = 100;

protected int _y = 150;

public abstract void AbstractMethod(); // Abstract method

public abstract int X { get; }

public abstract int Y { get; }

}

class DerivedClass : BaseClass

{

public override void AbstractMethod()

{

_x++;

_y++;

}

public override int X // overriding property

{

get

{

return _x + 10;

}

public override int Y // overriding property

{

get

{

return _y + 10;

}

static void Main()

{

DerivedClass o = new DerivedClass();

o.AbstractMethod();

Console.WriteLine("x = {0}, y = {1}", o.X, o.Y);

}

How to give link directly to send mail by clicking hyperlink in Telerik RadGrid

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:39:00 PST

Please write the following codes into your GridView design window:

<telerik:GridHyperLinkColumn UniqueName="Email" HeaderText="Email" DataTextField="Email" SortExpression="Email" DataNavigateUrlFields="Email" DataNavigateUrlFormatString="MailTo:{0}">

telerik:GridHyperLinkColumn>

Hope It Helps!

What’s Jagged Array in .Net ?

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:34:00 PST

A jagged array is an array whose elements are arrays. The elements of a jagged array can be of different dimensions and sizes. A jagged array is sometimes called an "array of arrays." The following examples show how to declare, initialize, and access jagged arrays.

Each of the elements is a single-dimensional array of integers. The first element is an array of 5 integers, the second is an array of 4 integers, and the third is an array of 2 integers.

jaggedArray[0] = new int[5];

jaggedArray[1] = new int[4];

jaggedArray[2] = new int[2];

The following example showing a jagged array demonstartion which builds an array whose elements are themselves arrays. Each one of the array elements has a different size.

class ArrayTest

{

static void Main()

{

// Declare the array of two elements:

int[][] arr = new int[2][];

// Initialize the elements:

arr[0] = new int[5] { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 };

arr[1] = new int[4] { 2, 4, 6, 8 };

// Display the array elements:

for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++)

{

System.Console.Write("Element({0}): ", i);

for (int j = 0; j < arr[i].Length; j++)

{

System.Console.Write("{0}{1}", arr[i][j], j == (arr[i].Length - 1) ? "" : " ");

}

System.Console.WriteLine();

System.Console.ReadLine();

}

Copy the above code and paste it on your console application code window (.cs only) and the following output window will come.

Get the value from GridView Column without ViewState Enabled

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:38:00 PST

Its easy to get value from the GridView column when ViewState is Enabled by using GridVIew_ItemCommand() event. But its little difficult to get the column value when the ViewState is Disabled. Here I found one solution for that and wish to share it here.

First you have to make the EnableViewState=False of the GridView control and then write following code line in GridView Design code

OnSelectedIndexChanged="radGridQcDupsView_SelectionIndexChanged"

Note: Here my GridView name is radGridQcDupsView. You change according to your GridView name.

Then in codebehind file(.cs/.vb) you can write following code according to your language

C#:

protected void grdQcDupsView _SelectionIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

string contentId = grdQcDupsView.DataKeyNames.GetValue(1).ToString();

long RowValue = long.Parse(contentId);

}

VB:

Protected Sub grdQcDupsView_SelectionIndexChanged(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles grdQcDupsView.SelectedIndexChanged

Dim contentId As String = grdQcDupsView.DataKeyNames.GetValue(1).ToString()

Dim RowValue As Long = CLng(contentId)

End Sub

Hope it Helps!

How to Pop-up Messagebox in Web Application

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:25:00 PST

Like in windows application you can show your messagebox in web applicaion also. First you have to write a simple javascript code in yourpage HTML page itself or in another file with .js extension and give the path to your HTML page file where you want to use it. Your javascript code should be shown like bellow:

function WebMsgBox() {

var msg = 'Good Morning .Net ';

alert(msg);

}

And after that you can call this function from your serverside page code (.cs/.vb) file by using ScriptManager as shown bellow:

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, this.GetType(), "Welcome Message", "WebMsgBox();", true);

And when fire that event the WebMsgBox will shown as bellow:

Create WPF Project in Visual Studio 2008

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:17:00 PST

WPF stands for Windows Presentation Foundation, which helps developer to design innovative application which can be reuse by other applications. To create WPF application you have to install .Net Framework 3.0 or latter. If you have Visual Studio 2008 then don’t worry. You can develop a high quality WPF application.

Here I demonstrate a media player by using this WPF application. So follow the steps as follows:

STEP 1: Open your Visual Studio IDE and select File >> New Project and from windows templates select WPF Application and rename the project as MyPlayer as shown in figure:

Now you can see the following look in your IDE as shown in the figure:

STEP 2: If you click on Show All Files in Solution Explorer, then you can see three files i.e.; App.xaml, App.xaml.cs, Window1.xaml and Window1.xaml.cs; as shown in figure:

STEP 3: Change your Window1.xaml as shown bellow:

And your design window also looks as bellow:

Then double click the Browse button and it’ll open in code window named as Window1.xaml.cs and write the following code snippet in BrowseButton_Click event:

STEP 4: Now run the application by pressing F5 and you will see following like output:

Note: The above application code is in C# language but you can convert it into other languages.

I think it’ll help you.

Create WCF Project in Visual Studio 2008

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:44:00 PST

First you have to know what WCF is: WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation and it helps developers to create interoperable services that send and receive messages between server and client. It’s based on message based communication and supports many Communication Protocols like TCP, MSMQ, and HTTP etc. This is somewhat similar to that Webservice also. The following simple example can make you understand the whole concept. So now you can follow the following steps in your own system and try to understand also.

STEP 1: First you have to check Visual Studio 2008 (its can be do with Visual Studio 2005 also) is properly installed or not. Because the following demonstration in VS 2008 only.

STEP 2: Open the Visual Studio IDE and select New Project from File Menu and from template window select the WCF Service Application and name the project as CalculatorService and click on Ok button as shown in the figure:

STEP 3: Now you can see two files i.e.; IService1.cs and Service1.svc.cs in your Solution Explorer (It depends on your language that you choose). Double click the IService1.cs file and write the code to create an Interface for your calculator service as shown bellow:

STEP 4: Then double click the Service1.svc.cs and write the definition code for previous created Interface as shown bellow:

Now save your project and build it by selecting Build >>> Build CalculatorService from the main menu.

STEP 5: Now open the command prompt of the Visual Studio 2008 by selecting Visual Studio Tools >>> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt from the program menu. On the command prompt type the following URL: svcutil.exe http://localhost:1067/Service1.svc?wsdl and press <Enter> key. This will generate a configuration file and a code file that contains the client class. Add the two files to your client application and use the generated client class to call the Service (its need to remember the path where these two files are resides) as shown in the figure:

In my case I got two files named Output.xml and Service1.cs.

STEP 6: After that you have to create a Client Application to consume that service that you created in previous steps. Simply open your Visual Studio 2008 IDE and select File >>> New Project. From the entire template select Console Application and named it as ClientCalculator and press Ok. Then add the previous two commands generated files (Output.xml and Service1.cs) in to your project solution and rename that Output.xml to App.config (delete the previous App.config first). Then your Solution Explorer looks as follows:

STEP 7: Then add the client side codes to your ClientCalculator.cs file which looks like as shown bellow:

Now run the application as normal project by pressing F5 and you can see the following output window:

So at last you learned the creation and consume of WCF Service Application.

Note: You can implement the same thing in VB and other languages also.

Creating a Report by Using SQL Report Server

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:22:00 PST

In my previous post I discussed about the Configuration of Report Server. After configuration successfully you can follow the following steps to create your report by using the Report Server of MS SQL Server 2008.

STEP:1 First you have to prepare your data source (it may be SQL Server or Oracle or Ms-Access,etc). Because during the reporting process it asks for a database to which your report will connect and shows the data.

STEP:2 Open Visual Studio 2008 or 2005(not less than that) and then select File >>> New >>> Project >>> Business Intelligence Projects >>> Report Server Project Wizard . Then give your project name as “FirstSqlReport” and press Ok button as shown in figure:

STEP:3 Then you can see the following screen in Wizard and click on Next button.

STEP:4 Then you can see the following screen and here you have select your data source and all credential required by your database. Her I am using MS SQL Server database as data source. So that it looks like as:

On this screen click on Edit button and it shows the following screen and there you select your server and database with credentials (if required). This screen may differ according to the data source you selected in above screen. So in my case it looks like as:

Then come to the previous screen and hit on Next button and another window will come like this:

STEP:5 On this window you click on Query Builder… and it’ll open another window. Here you can write/import the SQL query to retrieve the data from the database (it may be simple text or stored procedure or table). In my case it looks like as:

Then click on Ok and get back to the previous window, click on Next button.

STEP:6 On the new window you can select the type of report that it’ll Tabular or Matrix. I have selected first one (i.e.; Tabular). So it looks as:

Click on Next button and a new window will come.

STEP:7 On this window select the fields you want show in details, page, group. Here I selected all fields to show in details view and it looks as:

Click on Next button and a new window will come.

STEP:8 On this window you can select style of the report and I selected corporate style which looks like as:

Click on Next and another window will come which looks as:

Note: Please don’t try to change any value on this window (although it’s not looks as above screen), because this is your default Report Server settings.

Click on Next and another window will come as shown bellow:

STEP:9 Here you have to give some name to the report as I given “TaskReport” and check Preview report option and click on Finish button.

Now your report is ready to deploy in to the Report Server. Now select Build >>> Build FirstSqlReport from the main menu and then select Build >>> Deploy FirstSqlReport and wait a while when it shows the Deploy Succeed message in output window. Then press F5 button to run the project and it’ll come as follows:

Configure Report Server in SQL Server 2008

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:46:00 PST

First you have to install MS SQL Server 2008. Then go to Start – All Programs – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Configuration Tools and select ‘Reporting Services Configuration Manager’. After that follow the following

steps:

STEP:1. Then the following window will come:

Click on ‘Connect’ button and then following window will come:

Note: If the ‘Stop’ button disabled then click on ‘Start’ button to start the server.

STEP:2. Then Select ‘Service Account’ from left side panel and if the following window will come then you are on right way otherwise you should change as shown in figure:

STEP:3. Then Select ‘Web Service URL’ from left side panel and if the following window will come then you are on right way otherwise you should change as shown in figure:

Note: You can give any name in ‘Virtual Directory’ field, but don’t change other fields

And click on that URLs shown bellow to check the server. If you see the following screen in your browser then it’s ok. Otherwise you have to check configuration again.

STEP:4. Then come to the next option ‘Database’ of that left side panel and check whether following screen like window is coming or not. If is not coming then click on ‘Change Database’ button or ‘Change Credential’ button on the right side and configure them.

STEP:5. Then come to the next option ‘Report Manager URL’ of that left side panel and check whether following screen like window is coming or not. If its not coming click on ‘Advance’ button and configure for your IP address.

On the above window click on that URLs and it’ll open in your default browser as shown bellow:

Note: The red circle marked things are optional for you. It shows in my case only.

That’s it. Now you can create your report and deploy easily which I’ll discuss in my next post.
Note: If it will not come as above then again repeat the above steps.

What’s XML..?

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:29:00 PDT

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language, with the markup bit being the key. You can create content and mark it up with delimiting tags, making each word, phrase, or chunk into identifiable, sort able information. The files, or document instances, you create consist of elements (tags) and content, and the elements help the documents to be understood fairly well when read from printouts or even processed electronically. The more descriptive the elements, the more a document's parts can be identified. From the early days of markup to today, one advantage of tagging content is that if a computer system is lost, the data in print can still be understood from its tags.

Markup languages evolved from early, private company and government forms into Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and eventually into XML. SGML can seem complex, and HTML (which was really just an element set) was just not powerful enough to identify information. XML is designed as an easy-to-use and easy-to-extend markup language.

With XML, you can create your own elements, giving you the freedom to precisely represent your pieces of information. Rather than treating your documents as headings and paragraphs, you can identify each part within the document. For efficiency, you'll want to define a finite list of your elements and stick to them. You can define your elements in a Document Type Definition (DTD) or in a schema. As you start out and get used to XML, feel free to experiment with element names as you build practice files.

Some important features of XML:

XML is a set of rules (you may also think of them as guidelines or conventions) for designing text formats that let you structure your data.
XML uses the tags only to delimit pieces of data, and leaves the interpretation of the data completely to the application that reads it.
A forgotten tag or an attribute without quotes makes an XML file unusable, while in HTML such practice is often explicitly allowed.
XML Schemas help developers to precisely define the structures of their own XML-based formats.
XML allows you to define a new document format by combining and reusing other formats.
XML is license-free; you can build your own software around it without paying anybody anything.

You have to enter the line “” first to start writing XML code. Following shows a well-formed XML structure of some data. First you have to write it in notepad and Save As it with FirstData.xml file in your drive.

After that double click that file (FirstData.XML) and it’ll open in your default browser as shown bellow:

Overview of LINQ

manas.ignis@gmail.com (Manas) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:31:00 PDT

Rather than add relational or XML-specific features to our programming languages and runtime, with the LINQ project we have taken a more general approach and are adding general-purpose query facilities to the .NET Framework that apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. This facility is called .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ).

We use the term language-integrated query to indicate that query is an integrated feature of the developer's primary programming languages (for example, Visual C#, Visual Basic). Language-integrated query allows query expressions to benefit from the rich metadata, compile-time syntax checking, static typing and IntelliSense that was previously available only to imperative code. Language-integrated query also allows a single general purpose declarative query facility to be applied to all in-memory information, not just information from external sources.

.NET Language-Integrated Query defines a set of general purpose standard query operators that allow traversal, filter, and projection operations to be expressed in a direct yet declarative way in any .NET-based programming language. The standard query operators allow queries to be applied to any IEnumerable-based information source. LINQ allows third parties to augment the set of standard query operators with new domain-specific operators that are appropriate for the target domain or technology. More importantly, third parties are also free to replace the standard query operators with their own implementations that provide additional services such as remote evaluation, query translation, optimization, and so on. By adhering to the conventions of the LINQ pattern, such implementations enjoy the same language integration and tool support as the standard query operators.

The extensibility of the query architecture is used in the LINQ project itself to provide implementations that work over both XML and SQL data. The query operators over XML (LINQ to XML) use an efficient, easy-to-use, in-memory XML facility to provide XPath/XQuery functionality in the host programming language. The query operators over relational data (LINQ to SQL) build on the integration of SQL-based schema definitions into the common language runtime (CLR) type system. This integration provides strong typing over relational data while retaining the expressive power of the relational model and the performance of query evaluation directly in the underlying store.

The following example shows how to include a LINQ query in a Web page. The example displays the results from the query in a GridView control.

[VB Code]

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

    If Not IsPostBack Then

        Dim dataContext As AdventureWorksDataContext =  New AdventureWorksDataContext()

        Dim query = From contact In dataContext.Contacts _

          Where contact.EmailPromotion = 1 _

          Select contact

        GridView1.DataSource = query

        GridView1.DataBind()

    End If

End Sub

[C# Code]

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    if (!IsPostBack)

        AdventureWorksDataContext dataContext =  new AdventureWorksDataContext();

        var query = from contact in dataContext.Contacts

          where contact.EmailPromotion==1

          select contact;

        GridView1.DataSource = query;

        GridView1.DataBind();

}
}

Shortcut		Description

Ctrl-X or Shift-Delete	Cuts the currently selected item to the clipboard
Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Insert	Copies the currently selected item to the clipboard
Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert	Pastes the item in the clipboard at the cursor
Ctrl-Z or Alt-Backspace	Undo previous editing action
Ctrl-Y or Ctrl-Shift-Z	Redo the previous undo action
Ctrl-Shift-V or Ctrl-Shift-Insert	Pastes an item from the clipboard ring tab of the Toolbox at the cursor in the file and automatically selects the pasted item. Cycle through the items on the clipboard by pressing the shortcut keys repeatedly
Esc	Closes a menu or dialog, cancels an operation in progress, or places focus in the current document window
Ctrl-S	Saves the selected files in the current project (usually the file that is being edited)
Ctrl-Shift-S	Saves all documents and projects
Ctrl-P	Displays the Print dialog
F7	Switches from the design view to the code view in the editor
Shift-F7	Switches from the code view to the design view in the editor
F8	Moves the cursor to the next item, for example in the TaskList window or Find Results window
Shift-F8	Moves the cursor to the previous item, for example in the TaskList window or Find Results window
Shift-F12	Finds a reference to the selected item or the item under the cursor
Ctrl-Shift-G	Opens the file whose name is under the cursor or is currently selected
Ctrl-/	Switches focus to the Find/Command box on the Standard toolbar
Ctrl-Shift-F12	Moves to the next task in the TaskList window
Ctrl-Shift-8	Moves backward in the browse history. Available in the object browser or Class View window
Alt-Left Arrow	Go back in the web browser history
Alt-Right Arrow	Go forward in the web browser history

Shortcut	Description
Left Arrow	Moves the cursor one character to the left
Right Arrow	Moves the cursor one character to the right
Down Arrow	Moves the cursor down one line
Up Arrow	Moves the cursor up one line
Page Down	Scrolls down one screen in the editor window
Page Up	Scrolls up one screen in the editor window
End	Moves the cursor to the end of the current line
Home	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. If you press Home when the cursor is already at the start of the line, it will toggle the cursor between the first non-whitespace character and the real start of the line
Ctrl-End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document
Ctrl-Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the document
Ctrl-G	Displays the Go to Line dialog. If the debugger is running, the dialog also lets you specify addresses or function names to go to
Ctrl-]	Moves the cursor to the matching brace in the document. If the cursor is on an opening brace, this will move to the corresponding closing brace and vice versa
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-N	Moves to the next bookmark in the document
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-P	Moves to the previous bookmark
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-I	Displays Quick Info, based on the current language
Ctrl-Down Arrow	Scrolls text down one line but does not move the cursor. This is useful for scrolling more text into view without losing your place. Available only in text editors
Ctrl-Up Arrow	Scrolls text up one line but does not move the cursor. Available only in text editors
Ctrl-Right Arrow	Moves the cursor one word to the right
Ctrl-Left Arrow	Moves the cursor one word to the left
Ctrl-Shift-1	Navigates to the next definition, declaration, or reference of an item. Available in the object browser and Class View window. Also available in source editing windows if you have already used the Edit.GoToReference (Shift-F12) shortcut
Ctrl-Shift-2	Navigates to the previous definition, declaration, or reference of an item

Shortcut	Description
Enter	Inserts a new line
Delete	Deletes one character to the right of the cursor
Insert	Toggles between insert and overtype insertion modes
Tab	Indents the currently selected line or lines by one tab stop. If there is no selection, this inserts a tab stop
Shift-Tab	Moves current line or selected lines one tab stop to the left
Backspace or Shift-Backspace	Deletes one character to the left of the cursor
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-C	Marks the current line or selected lines of code as a comment, using the correct comment syntax for the programming language
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-U	Removes the comment syntax from the current line or currently selected lines of code
Ctrl-T or Shift-Enter	Swaps the characters on either side of the cursor. (For example, AC\|BD becomes AB\|CD.) Available only in text editors
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-L	Removes all unnamed bookmarks in the current document
Ctrl-M, Ctrl-O	Automatically determines logical boundaries for creating regions in code, such as procedures, and then hides them. This collapses all such regions in the current document
Alt-Right Arrow or Ctrl-Spacebar	Displays statement completion based on the current language or autocompletes word if existing text unambiguously identifies a single symbol
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-\	Removes horizontal whitespace in the selection or deletes whitespace adjacent to the cursor if there is no selection
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-F	Applies the indenting and space formatting for the language as specified on the Formatting pane of the language in the Text Editor section of the Options dialog to the selected text.
Ctrl-L	Cuts all selected lines or the current line if nothing has been selected to the clipboard
Ctrl-Shift-L	Deletes all selected lines or the current line if no selection has been made
Ctrl-Enter	Inserts a blank line above the cursor
Ctrl-Shift-Enter	Inserts a blank line below the cursor
Shift-Alt-T	Moves the line containing the cursor below the next line
Ctrl-J	Lists members for statement completion when editing code
Ctrl-U	Changes the selected text to lowercase characters
Ctrl-Shift-U	Changes the selected text to uppercase characters
Ctrl-Shift-Spacebar	Displays a tooltip that contains information for the current parameter, based on the current language
Ctrl-M, Ctrl-U	Removes the outlining information for the currently selected region
Ctrl-M, Ctrl-P	Removes all outlining information from the entire document
Ctrl-R, Ctrl-P	Swaps the anchor and endpoint of the current selection
Ctrl-M, Ctrl-L	Toggles all previously marked hidden text sections between hidden and display states
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-K	Sets or removes a bookmark at the current line
Ctrl-M, Ctrl-M	Toggles the currently selected hidden text section or the section containing the cursor if there is no selection between the hidden and display states
Ctrl-K, Ctrl-H	Sets or removes a shortcut in the tasklist to the current line
Ctrl-R, Ctrl-R	Enables or disables word wrap in an editor
Ctrl-R, Ctrl-W	Shows or hides spaces and tab marks
Ctrl-Delete	Deletes the word to the right of the cursor
Ctrl-Backspace	Deletes the word to the left of the cursor
Ctrl-Shift-T	Transposes the two words that follow the cursor. (For example, \|End Sub would be changed to read Sub End\|.)

Shortcut	Description
Shift-Left Arrow	Moves the cursor to the left one character, extending the selection
Shift-Alt-Left Arrow	Moves the cursor to the left one character, extending the column selection
Shift-Right Arrow	Moves the cursor to the right one character, extending the selection
Shift-Alt-Right Arrow	Moves the cursor to the right one character, extending the column selection
Ctrl-Shift-End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document, extending the selection
Ctrl-Shift-Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the document, extending the selection
Ctrl-Shift-]	Moves the cursor to the next brace, extending the selection
Shift-Down Arrow	Moves the cursor down one line, extending the selection
Shift-Alt-Down Arrow	Moves the cursor down one line, extending the column selection
Shift-End	Moves the cursor to the end of the current line, extending the selection
Shift-Alt-End	Moves the cursor to the end of the line, extending the column selection
Shift-Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the line, extending the selection
Shift-Alt-Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the line, extending the column selection
Shift-Up Arrow	Moves the cursor up one line, extending the selection
Shift-Alt-Up Arrow	Moves the cursor up one line, extending the column selection
Shift-Page Down	Extends selection down one page
Shift-Page Up	Extends selection up one page
Ctrl-A	Selects everything in the current document
Ctrl-W	Selects the word containing the cursor or the word to the right of the cursor
Ctrl-=	Selects from the current location in the editor back to the previous location in the navigation history
Ctrl-Shift-Page Down	Moves the cursor to the last line in view, extending the selection
Ctrl-Shift-Page Up	Moves the cursor to the top of the current window, extending the selection
Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Right Arrow	Moves the cursor to the right one word, extending the column selection
Ctrl-Shift-Left Arrow	Moves the cursor one word to the left, extending the selection
Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Left Arrow	Moves the cursor to the left one word, extending the column selection

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl-Shift-B	Builds the solution
Ctrl-N	Displays the New File dialog. Note: files created this way are not associated with a project. Use Ctrl-Shift-A to add a new file in a project
Ctrl-Shift-N	Displays the New Project dialog
Ctrl-O	Displays the Open File dialog
Ctrl-Shift-O	Displays the Open Project dialog
Shift-Alt-A	Displays the Add Existing Item dialog
Ctrl-Shift-A	Displays the Add New Item dialog
Ctrl-Alt-Insert	Allows you to override base class methods in a derived class when an overridable method is highlighted in the Class View pane

Shortcut	Description
Shift-Alt-Enter	Toggles full screen mode
Ctrl-+	Goes back to the previous location in the navigation history. (For example, if you press Ctrl-Home to go to the start of a document, this shortcut will take the cursor back to wherever it was before you pressed Ctrl-Home.)
Ctrl-Shift-+	Moves forward in the navigation history. This is effectively an undo for the View.NavigateBackward operation
Ctrl-F4	Closes the current MDI child window
Shift-Esc	Closes the current tool window
Ctrl-F2	Moves the cursor to the navigation bar at the top of a code view
Ctrl-Tab	Cycles through the MDI child windows one window at a time
Ctrl-F6, Ctrl-Shift-Tab	Moves to the previous MDI child window
Alt-F6, Ctrl-Shift-F6	Moves to the next tool window
Shift-Alt-F6	Moves to the previously selected window
F6	Moves to the next pane of a split pane view of a single document
Shift-F6	Moves to the previous pane of a document in split pane view
Ctrl-Pagedown	Moves to the next tab in the document or window (e.g., you can use this to switch the HTML editor from its design view to its HTML view
Ctrl-PageUp	Moves to the previous tab in the document or window

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl-Alt-V, A	Displays the Auto window to view the values of variables currently in the scope of the current line of execution within the current procedure
Ctrl-Alt-Break	Temporarily stops execution of all processes in a debugging session. Available only in run mode
Ctrl-Alt-B	Displays the Breakpoints dialog, where you can add and modify breakpoints
Ctrl-Alt-C	Displays the Call Stack window to display a list of all active procedures or stack frames for the current thread of execution. Available only in break mode
Ctrl-Shift-F9	Clears all of the breakpoints in the project
Ctrl-Alt-D	Displays the Disassembly window
Ctrl-F9	Enables or disables the breakpoint on the current line of code. The line must already have a breakpoint for this to work
Ctrl-Alt-E	Displays the Exceptions dialog
Ctrl-Alt-I	Displays the Immediate window, where you can evaluate expressions and execute individual commands
Ctrl-Alt-V, L	Displays the Locals window to view the variables and their values for the currently selected procedure in the stack frame
Ctrl-Alt-M, 1	Displays the Memory 1 window to view memory in the process being debugged. This is particularly useful when you do not have debugging symbols available for the code you are looking at. It is also helpful for looking at large buffers, strings, and other data that does not display clearly in the Watch or Variables window
Ctrl-Alt-M, 2	Displays the Memory 2 window
Ctrl-Alt-M, 3	Displays the Memory 3 window
Ctrl-Alt-M, 4	Displays the Memory 4 window
Ctrl-Alt-U	Displays the Modules window, which allows you to view the .dll or .exe files loaded by the program. In multiprocess debugging, you can right-click and select Show Modules for all programs
Ctrl-B	Opens the New Breakpoint dialog
Ctrl-Alt-Q	Displays the Quick Watch dialog with the current value of the selected expression. Available only in break mode. Use this command to check the current value of a variable, property, or other expression for which you have not defined a watch expression
Ctrl-Alt-G	Displays the Registers window, which displays CPU register contents
Ctrl-Shift-F5	Terminates the current debugging session, rebuilds if necessary, and then starts a new debugging session. Available in break and run modes
Ctrl-Alt-N	Displays the Running Documents window that displays the set of HTML documents that you are in the process of debugging. Available in break and run modes
Ctrl-F10	Starts or resumes execution of your code and then halts execution when it reaches the selected statement. This starts the debugger if it is not already running
Ctrl-Shift-F10	Sets the execution point to the line of code you choose
Alt-NUM *	Highlights the next statement to be executed
F5	If not currently debugging, this runs the startup project or projects and attaches the debugger. If in break mode, this allows execution to continue (i.e., it returns to run mode).
Ctrl-F5	Runs the code without invoking the debugger. For console applications, this also arranges for the console window to stay open with a "Press any key to continue" prompt when the program finishes
F11	Executes code one statement at a time, tracing execution into function calls
Shift-F11	Executes the remaining lines of a function in which the current execution point lies
F10	Executes the next line of code but does not step into any function calls
Shift-F5	Available in break and run modes, this terminates the debugging session
Ctrl-Alt-V, T	Displays the This window, which allows you to view the data members of the object associated with the current method
Ctrl-Alt-H	Displays the Threads window to view all of the threads for the current process
F9	Sets or removes a breakpoint at the current line
Ctrl-F11	Displays the disassembly information for the current source file. Available only in break mode
Ctrl-Alt-W, 1	Displays the Watch 1 window to view the values of variables or watch expressions
Ctrl-Alt-W, 2	Displays the Watch 2 window
Ctrl-Alt-W, 3	Displays the Watch 3 window
Ctrl-Alt-W, 4	Displays the Watch 4 window
Ctrl-Alt-P	Displays the Processes dialog, which allows you to attach or detach the debugger to one or more running processes

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl-Shift-M	Toggles the Command window into or out of a mode allowing text within the window to be selected
Ctrl-Shift-C	Displays the Class View window
Ctrl-Alt-A	Displays the Command window, which allows you to type commands that manipulate the IDE
Ctrl-Alt-T	Displays the Document Outline window to view the flat or hierarchical outline of the current document
Ctrl-Alt-F	Displays the Favorites window, which lists shortcuts to web pages
Ctrl-Alt-O	Displays the Output window to view status messages at runtime
F4	Displays the Properties window, which lists the design-time properties and events for the currently selected item
Shift-F4	Displays the property pages for the item currently selected. (For example, use this to show a project's settings.)
Ctrl-Shift-E	Displays the Resource View window
Ctrl-Alt-S	Displays the Server Explorer window, which allows you to view and manipulate database servers, event logs, message queues, web services, and many other operating system services
Ctrl-Alt-R	Displays the web browser window, which allows you to view pages on the Internet
Ctrl-Alt-L	Displays the Solution Explorer, which lists the projects and files in the current solution
Ctrl-Alt-K	Displays the TaskList window, which displays tasks, comments, shortcuts, warnings, and error messages
Ctrl-Alt-X	Displays the Toolbox, which contains controls and other items that can be dragged into editor and designer windows