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Did you know... You can run Visual Studio commands with arguments from the command window? - #087

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After the past several weeks of Find tips (i knew i would have a few tips, just not nearly a month’s worth!), let’s change things up a bit and talk about the command window.

Press Ctrl+Alt+A to open the command window.  Check the keybinding for View.CommandWindow if your keybindings are different.  Also available from the View – Other Windows – Command Window.  Now you can run various Visual Studio commands without having to go through the menus. 

Examples:

  • >File.Open c:\samples\foo.txt  //Open a file without going through the menu. 
  • >Help vs.commandwindow  //open a help topic directly
  • >? i  // get the contents of the variable i
  • >? i = 10  // set the contents of the variable i

View the following help topic for a list of commonly-used commands that include arguments in VS 2005.  Also available in VS 2008 documentation.

Auto-completion is also provided for both the commands and their corresponding arguments.

Command Window Auto-completion for commands

You can also get auto-completion for arguments. 

Command Window Autocomplete for Arguments

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Hey Now Sara, Just saw your blog from a link on the newsletter & subscribed. I really like the content of your blog. The idea of a little tidbit each day including hotkeys sounds great to me. I love hotkeys & VS hotkeys I use so often. Thx for the info, Catto

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2009
    Нажмите Ctrl+Alt+A , чтобы открыть командное окно. Проверьте эту комбинацию клавиш для View.CommandWindow,