shortcuts

Primarily in Visual Studio & ReSharper,

but hopefully useful for other IDEs in principle.

NOTE: My specific keyboard mappings might be wonky,

but again, it's the principle that matters.

PrettyPrint please

CTRL + K, D: Reformat file indentation.

Yes, this does happen automatically after various events, but best to force this manually too, especially before committing.

consistent formatting reduces noise on a diff

#PROTIP:

simply formatting lots of files makes your commit logs look like you've been busy.

USEFUL FOR:

hangovers;
killing time waiting for 5.30pm;
annoying your team mates to make them keep having to pull before they can push every time.

Ctrl + Shift + V

Especially useful when you cut some lines,
then accidentally copy more stuff before pasting.

No excuse not to write self-documenting code when you have the following shortcuts:

Ctrl + R, M: Extract method

tada!

Ctrl + R, V: Introduce variable

Same principle, but to quickly extract part of a long chain of commands into inline variables.

Especially nice for readability.

Also exists: Introduce { field, parameter }

but because these are kinda more structural, I don't really use them as much...

Ctrl + D

(doesn't disturb your clipboard)

Ctrl + Alt + /

Ctrl + U, U

Can map a keyboard shortcut to Commit dialog (if you're afraid of the command line, not that I am...)

Shift + right click inside folder

-> Open command window here

C:\<folder_path>\explorer .

A useful side effect of pair programming is to share productivity hacks like these amongst your team.

(there are plenty more, I didn't even mention Alt+Insert for constructor generation, but this was just the start of the conversation...)