This post is part of the series 'Visual Studio Tips and Tricks'. You can also activate the option 'Track Active Item in Solution Explorer' to automatically select the current document in the solution explorer:

You can quickly locate the currently opened file in it using Ctrl+[, S or using the following button: But for some operation, such as renaming a file, you need to find the file in the solution explorer. Just be aware.In Visual Studio you can easily open a file using the search everything functionality ( Ctrl+T). Since I am using Ctrl+Shift+T for testing (that's just me) I did need to manually unbind it from New Tab in my Windows Terminal settings. Here's it in Animated Gif Form! (Using Carnac to see the hotkeys being pressed) LongDescription 'dotnet Test the current directory' ` Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Ctrl+Shift+t ` And, one of our key focus areas is to make Visual Studio more personalized and flexible, so that you can make the IDE your own.

Here's Shift-Ctrl-T typing dotnet test and pressing enter. One of Visual Studio’s core goals is to increase your individual and team productivity. LongDescription 'dotnet Build the current directory' ` BriefDescription BuildCurrentDirectory ` Just add these to your $profile, after you've imported PSReadLine via if ($host.Name -eq 'ConsoleHost')īuilding with Shift-Ctrl-B Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Ctrl+Shift+b `

The key-map to auto-format the selected JSON is ALT-SHIFT-F. The animation also shows how you can use the tool to help you fix issues to do with how well-formed the the JSON code is. Here's Shift-Ctrl-B typing dotnet build and pressing enter. Depending on the JSON, the file will auto detect you are working with JSON data, or you need to set the language using the status bar in the bottom right-hand corner. PSReadLine supports Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler which is basically hotkey bindings to any arbitrary script block. So why not make a few of these intuitive hotkeys work for me there as well? I spend a lot of time at the command line, in Windows Terminal, in PowerShell, using PSReadLine. It's built into my hands! Ctrl-Shift-T is test (even though it's non-standard, it's there, in my hands.

When I want to build code I type Ctrl-Shift-B.

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