

This is one of the most useful shortcut key. The only restriction with this shortcut key is that we can move across in the same scope. We can achieve same by clicking on that specific line and using the key combination ‘Ctrl + Shift + f10’ and debugger will go that line.

Lets say I am debugging some code, and my debugger has come to line number 52 but due to some reason I want to go back to line number 42. Lets check it out with the help of an example. This keyboard shortcut helps to move the debug point to a previous location.

Ctrl + Shift + F10 -> Move the live debugging pointĪgain this is a very key shortcut which comes handy when we are debugging our code. Once you have come back to the previous location, you may want to go back to the currently working location. You can use this key combination to keep going to previous locations where you have been. If we are working on the larger code base, we have to go to and fro many number of times to look the previous code or condition. The combination of the control and hyphen(-) key is used to go back to the previous code or file from where we have just come. List of Visual Studio shortcut keys for faster debugging Ctrl + ‘-‘ -> Move backward I am not a big fan of always pointing the mouse pointer to the menu items or tool box items in the visual studio, every time I want to do some action in Visual Studio. These shortcut key combinations are on my finger tips, thus reducing my debugging time. These shortcut keys helps to reduce the debugging time and hence increase the productivity. Hello friends, In this article I will list down top 5 Visual Studio Shortcut keys that every developer should know.
