One of my favorite Visual Studio Shortcut- Very useful ! August 9, 2010

“Ctrl + .”  Or “ALT + SHIFT+F10”   is one of my favorite shortcut in Visual Studio.   You can use the same shortcut for various situations as described in below.

1. Adding Namespaces Automatically / Resolve Namespaces.

2. Generate Method Stubs.

3. Implement Interface/ Abstract Class

4. Generate Automatic Class Files

5. Rename Member variables or Classes

Let’s start with one by one .

1. Adding Namespaces Automatically / Resolve Namespaces.

If you are adding a new class in your code you may need to add the correspondence  namespace. To do it, you may either manually type the Using Namespace or you just right click on the class name and select Resolve > Namespace.  But using “Ctrl+.” you can automatically add the namespace in your code.

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