Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Aliases and the Command Window

I am a big fan of using the keyboard whenever possible instead of the mouse. The command window (CTRL + ALT + A) provides a great opportunity for me to keep my fingers on the keyboard.

One of the awesome things is to create aliases. I do for lots of items from building a project to browsing to my favorite website.

Many times I skip the command window and go straight to the Find/Command Box (CTRL + /). From there I can type in the greater than(>) character and type my alias. For more information on how to use the command window and aliases, Microsoft has a pretty good reference.

Pre-defined Visual Studio Command Aliases

1 comments:

Techsoda said...

I forgot to mention, if you use some third party add-ins such as resharper, you may find that your keyboard shortcuts are remapped.