Ctrl+I the best kept secret of Visual Studio

3:01 pm Hawkeye, Readify, Visual Studio

I’m not sure how many people are aware but one of the best shortcuts (that has no default menu entry) that exists in Visual Studio is the Ctrl+I shortcut. It stands for Incremental Search.

That is “search in this document, top-to-bottom for text starting with the following characters:”

The nice part of this search is that there is no popup to be opened or closed so the IDE is very responsive. The only indication that the command has started is the mouse icon that is changing:

Now you can start typing and as the characters are entered the first text found to match your text entry is selected (scrolling is included for free):

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