Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we’ve put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio.

In the video, we cover the following shortcuts:

| Ctrl + D | Duplicate lines | | Ctrl + Shift + L | Delete whole line | | Shift + Alt + . | Select next occurrence | | Alt + select | Vertical (box) selection | | Alt + Ctrl + mouse-click | Insert multiple cursors |

There are many other features for editing your code. One way to discover them is to look in the Edit menu.

Happy coding!

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