An Important Note About Keyboard ShortcutsKeyboard shortcuts can be used to save time when working with an application. Instead of taking your hands off the keyboard and reaching for the mouse, you can use a shortcut key and keep your hands on the keyboard. Throughout this book, we reference keyboard shortcuts for a number of different functions, but since Visual Studio includes a number of different keyboard mapping schemes and also allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts, it is difficult to say what keyboard shortcut will be valid for the scheme you are using. To resolve this issue, we specify the keyboard shortcut for the default Visual Studio keyboard mapping scheme, but we also include the name of the command for the shortcut.Visual Studio uses commands to do everything: each menu button, toolbar button, or keyboard shortcut is really just a reference to a command. If you know the command, you can find the keyboard shortcut in your scheme using Tools assign a keyboard shortcut to that command [Hack 24], or just use the command through the command window [Hack 46]. Whenever we refer to a keyboard shortcut, you will see the name of the command either in the same sentence or in parentheses after the shortcut. The format of commands is normally two words separated by a period, for instance View.ClassView. |