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Shortcuts and QoL features

• ctrl + T - search for a class. If you want to search for UserController.cs you can type UCont and it will find it
• ctrl + shift + P - search inside Visual Studio options
• ctrl + D - duplicate actual line
• alt + ↑ / ↓ - move code lines

Auto-complete placeholders

• prop - creates a new property for a class
• ctor - creates a new constructor
• cw - creates a new Console.WriteLine() statement
• try - creates a try-catch statement

To create a new property, type prop, hit twice tab and it creates a property template which you can navegate and override

Multi-caret and multi-cursor editing

(check this for more details)

For lines that are aligned

• alt + mouse click - selects a block to edit
• alt + shift + arrow - same with keyboard

For multiple places that are not aligned

• ctrl + alt + mouse click - click where you want to add a caret
• (select the word you want to match) alt + shift + ; - vstudio selects all locations that match selected text in the current document and you may edit them

  Debug in VsCode

  Watch a variable

  En la pestaña watch se puede introducir el nombre de una variable y al hacer debug mostrará siempre el valor de esta variable.

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