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Visual Studio Shotcuts - Visual Studio 2008

Use these shortcuts to improve your speed when developing in Visual Studio. Most of these are shortcuts are set up by default, but there are also some custom shortcuts I use all the time. All custom shortcuts are marked with (custom) in the description text.

Keys	Description
ALT + F9 + D	Delete breakpoint.
CTRL + ALT + B	Displays the breakpoints window.
CTRL + ALT + F6	Close all windows but this (custom).
CTRL + ALT + F7	Collapse all projects in solution explorer (custom).
CTRL + ALT + F9	Delete all breakpoints.
CTRL + ALT + B	Show breakpoints window.
CTRL + '.'	Add reference to object.
CTRL + E, D	Auto format code in current window.
CTRL + F9	Enable / disable breakpoint on current line.
CTRL + M, CTRL + L	Collapse / open all regions recursively.
CTRL + M, CTRL + M	Open / close parent region.
CTRL + M, CTRL + O	Collapse / open all regions not recursively.
CTRL + SHIFT + F	Find in files dialog.
CTRL + SHIFT + F9	Clear all breakpoints in the solution.
CTRL + SHIFT + F12	Go to next error in error list window.
CTRL + W + T	Go to task list window.
F5	Start debugging.
F7	View code.
F9	Set or remove a breakpoint at the current line.
F12	Go to definition.
SHIFT + F5	Stop debugging.
SHIFT + F7	View designer.
SHIFT + F12	Find all references.