Visual Studio Keyboard Tip #6 – Find Window Command Line

There’s a great feature hidden in the Find Window Combo Box that is part of the standard Toolbar in Visual Studio.

1. Open Visual Studio
2. CTRL + N (Create a new file) choose “HTML Page”
3. Position the cursor on the tag
4. Press CTRL + /
5. The focus should have shifted to the Find Combo Box
6. Type >
7. Now type E
8. Cool! It’s a command line with built in Intellisense.
9. Type dit.LineT
10. The entry for Edit.LineTranspose should be selected
11. Press enter

You’ll notice that the and tags are now transposed. Take a few minutes to look around at what commands are available in this list. You can browse the list by entering one letter at a time. For example “>a” to see all the items that begin with a.
This is a great way to quickly execute commands that aren’t mapped to convenient keyboard shortcuts.