Navigation Shortcuts

Ctrl + ] - Moves the cursor to the matching brace in the source file
Ctrl + Hyphen (-) - Moves cursor to its previous position
Ctrl + Shift + Hyphen (-) - Moves cursor to the next browsed line of code
Shift + F7 - Switch between the Design and Source View of the document
Ctrl + Tab - Displays the IDE Navigator with the current document selected. Allows you to navigate open documents. Also try Alt+W+2
Ctrl + Shift + F - Displays the ‘Find in Files’ tab of the ‘Find and Replace’ dialog box
Ctrl + I - Activates Incremental Search by searching for the next occurrence of the input text. You can even use F3
Shift + F12 - Displays a list of all references for the symbol selected
Ctrl + / - Moves focus to the Find/Command box

Editing Shortcuts

Window Shortcuts

Shift + Alt + Enter - Toggle Full Screen Mode
Ctrl + M + O - Collapses all Regions to provide a high level overview of the types and members in the source file
Ctrl + M + L - Toggles all previously collapsed Regions
/ Collapses all tabs in a Toolbox
* Expands all tabs in a Toolbox. If * does not work, use Shift + 8 for ENU keyboards as explained here
Shift + Esc - Closes the current Tool Window with focus

Code Completion Shortcuts

Ctrl + Period (.) - Expands the Smart Tag Menu (Usually when you rename a method or need to add a ‘using’ statement). You can also use Alt+Shift+F10
Tab - Inserts expanded code snippet using a shortcut (for example enter the keyword ‘class’ and hit Tab twice)
Ctrl + Space - Completes the current word in the completion list

Other Shortcuts