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Starting a New Project in Visual Studio 2010

Starting a New Project in Visual Studio 2010

To start a new project in Visual Studio 2010:

  • Click File Menu
  • Select Project

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Next, we have project types and available languages listed :

  • Select Languages available from left most panel [Below we have languages like Visual C#, VB, F# etc]
  • Once we select languages from installed templates, we have project/application types listed.
  • Select project types, give name to your project and click ok.

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Some common examples of Project types :

Windows Forms Applications :

Project for creating application with Windows Forms User interface.

WPF Applications :

Windows Presentation Foundation Client application.

Console Applications :

Command line applications. No Graphical User Interface (GUI).

ASP.NET:

Web user interface applications, ie. web applications

Silverlight Applications:

Rich internet applications using Silverlight

Opening an Existing Project

  • Open Visual Studio and select File Menu -> Open -> Project

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  • Next, select Solution File from project folder

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  • Project files will be shown in Solution Explorer.

Microsoft Visual Studion 2010 Microsoft® Visual C#® Default Key Bindings

File Commands

  • File.NewProject :

CTRL + SHIFT + N

Displays the New Project dialog box.

  • File.OpenProject:

CTRL + SHIFT + O

Displays the Open Project dialog box, where existing projects can be added to the solution.

  • Project.AddClass:

SHIFT + ALT + C

Displays the Add New Item dialog box and selects Class template as default.

  • Project.AddExistingItem :

SHIFT + ALT + A

Displays the Add Existing Item dialog box, where existing files can be added to the current project.

  • Project.AddNewItem:

CTRL + SHIFT + A

Displays the Add New Item dialog box, where a new file can be added to the current project.

Editing

  • Edit.HideSelection:

CTRL + M , CTRL + H

Collapses current selection to an outlining region.

  • Edit.ToggleAllOutlining:

CTRL + M , L

Toggles all previously collapsed outlining regions between collapsed and expanded states.

  • Edit.ToggleOutliningExpansion:

CTRL + M , M

Toggles the currently selected collapsed region between the collapsed and expanded state.

  • Edit.StopOutlining:

CTRL + M , P

Removes all outlining information from the whole document.

  • Edit.CommentSelection:

CTRL + K , C or CTRL + E , C

Inserts // at the beginning of the current line or every line of the current selection.

Edit.UncommentSelection CTRL + K, U or CTRL + E, U Removes the // at the beginning of the current line or every line of the current selection.

  • Edit.FormatDocument:

CTRL + K, D or CTRL + E, D

Formats the current document according to the indentation and code formatting settings specified on the Formatting pane under : Tools | Options | Text Editor | C#.

  • Edit.FormatSelection:

CTRL + K, F or CTRL + E, F

Formats the current selection according to the indentation and code formatting settings specified on the Formatting pane under Tools | Options | Text Editor | C#.

  • Edit.InsertSnippet:

CTRL + K, X

Displays the Code Snippet Picker.The selected code snippet will be inserted at the caret position.

Edit.SurroundWith:

CTRL + K, S

Displays the Code Snippet Picker. The selected code snippet will bewrapped around the selected text.

  • Edit.InvokeSnippetFromShortcut:

TAB

Inserts the expanded code snippet from the shortcut name.

  • Edit.CycleClipboardRing:

CTRL + SHIFT + V

Pastes text from the Clipboard ring to the caret location in the file. Subsequent use of the shortcut key iterates through the items in the Clipboard ring.

  • Edit.Replace :

CTRL + H

Displays the replace options in the Quick Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.

  • Edit.ReplaceInFiles:

CTRL + SHIFT + H

Displays the replace options on the Replace in Files tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.

Window Commands :

  • View.ClassView:

CTRL + W, C

Displays the Class View window.

  • View.CodeDefinitionWindow:

CTRL + W, D

Displays the Code Definition window.

  • View.ErrorList:

CTRL + W, E

Displays the Error List window.

  • View.ObjectBrowser:

CTRL + W, J

Displays the Object Browser.

  • View.Output:

CTRL + W, O

Displays the Output window, where status messages can be viewed at run time.

  • View.PropertiesWindow:

CTRL + W, P

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

  • View.SolutionExplorer:

CTRL + W, S

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

  • View.TaskList:

CTRL + W, T

Displays the Task List window, which displays custom tasks, comments, shortcuts, warnings, and error messages.

  • View.Toolbox:

CTRL + W, X

Displays the Toolbox, which contains controls that can be included or used with your code.

  • View.ServerExplorer:

CTRL + W, L

Displays Server Explorer, which lets you view and manipulate database servers, event logs, message queues, Web services, and other operating system services.

  • Window.CloseToolWindow:

SHIFT + ESC

Closes the current tool window.

  • Data.ShowDataSources:

SHIFT + ALT + D

Displays the Data Sources window.

  • Window.CloseDocumentWindow:

CTRL + F4

Closes the current tab

Debugging Command:

  • Debug.Autos

CTRL+D, A

Displays the Autos window, which displays variables used in the current line of code and the preceding line of code.

  • Debug.CallStack:

CTRL+D, C

Displays the Call Stack window, which displays a list of all active methods or stack frames for the current thread of execution.

  • Debug.Immediate:

CTRL+D, I

Displays the Immediate window, where expressions can be evaluated.

  • Debug.Locals:

CTRL+D, L

Displays the Locals window, which displays the local variables and their values for each method in the current stack frame.

  • Debug.QuickWatch:

CTRL+D, Q

Displays the QuickWatch dialog box that has the current value of the selected expression.

  • Debug.Start:

F5

Launches the application under the debugger based on the settings from the startup project. When in Break mode, invoking this command will run the application until the next breakpoint.

  • Debug.StartWithoutDebugging:

CTRL+F5

Launches the application without invoking the debugger.

  • Debug.StepInto:

F11

Executes code one statement at a time, following execution into method calls.

  • Debug.StepIntoSpecific:

SHIFT+ALT+F11

Prompts to select which sub expression to step into, regardless of the tools options setting for skipping properties and operators.

  • Debug.StepOut:

SHIFT+F11

Executes the remaining lines of a method in which the current execution point is located.

  • Debug.StepOver:

F10

Executes the next line of code, but does not follow execution through any method calls.

  • Debug.StopDebugging:

SHIFT+F5

Stops running the current application under the debugger.

  • Debug.ToggleBreakpoint:

F9

Sets or removes a breakpoint at the current line.

  • Debug.Watch :

CTRL+D, W

Displays the Watch window, which displays the values of selected variables or watch expressions.

  • Debug.EnableBreakpoint:

CTRL+F9

Toggles the breakpoint between disabled and enabled.

  • Test.RunAllTestsInSolution:

CTRL+R, A

Runs all of the unit tests in the solution.

Build Commands:

  • Build.BuildSolution:

F6 or CTRL+SHIFT+B

Builds all the projects in the solution.

  • Build.BuildSelection:

SHIFT+F6

Builds the selected project and its dependencies.

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