Excellent Visual Studio tips roundup by Sara Ford
The ones I found most useful (or didn’t already know) include:
Prevent copying blank lines with Ctrl+C
Look in Tools - Options - Text Editor - All Languages - General. Unchecking 'Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection' prevents copying a blank line into the clipboard. How did I ever miss this checkbox!?
Incremental Search
This allows me to jump to the next match as I type it out. I LOVE it!!
1. Press Ctrl+I
2. Start typing the text you are searching for. note: you'll see the cursor jump to the first match, highlighting the current search string.
3. Press Ctrl+I again to jump to the next occurrence of the search string
4. (advanced tip) Press Ctrl+Shift+I to search backwards
5. To stop searching, press ESC
You’ll note that it is case-sensitive, unfortunately. I’ll have to look for a way to change that..
And, my total favorite is..
Customize how search results are displayed
This is one of the most irritating things ever about Visual Studio. The Find Results window is almost always filled with only the paths of the found files, instead of the line details. I always have to scroll to the right to see the details. Here is the direct link to the article, bypassing the roundup.