Improve Productivity with Keystroke Shortcuts

I'm clearly not the oldest knife in the drawer, nor am I the youngest.  I got involved with computers in my youth just about the time Bill Gates was positioning himself to put a PC in every home.  What this means is, I grew up on PCs with no mice; pre-Windows, pre-GUI.  I learned how to write "menu" programs that utilized a broader range of ascii characters than most people are familiar with today.  The point is, everything I did on the computer I did with the keyboard.

I recall in high school, a new kind of computer with this funny bulbous thing connected to it at the end of a wire.  The screen was even more compelling.  There was an arrow on the screen and you were supposed to use a "mouse" (the bulbous thing) to move it around.  Our teachers loaded something called Hypertext and told us to play around with it.  I have to admit, it was not love at first sight.  I had a lot of trouble making the arrow do what I wanted. 

Today, it is second nature to use a mouse to manipulate icons, text, forms, etc. on the screen.  Many people use touch screens in their daily lives.  As a developer who writes code, sometimes the mouse can get in the way.  The mouse is so integral that it can be hard to break free.  The mouse has its place; but, in my opinion, is should play a very small role in writing code.

I am constantly surprised at how many "experienced" developers are unfamiliar with the tools that they are using.  Below is a list of commands that I find useful with Microsoft Visual Studio, specifically for C# and asp.net.  Of course, you can change any of these and you can add your own by customizing Visual Studio. Many of these you will already know. Hopefully there are a few new ones here to boost your productivity.

These are just the basics.  Imagine what you can do with code acceleration tools like CodeRush, ReSharper, and others.