I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu. What it doesn�t tell you is that there�s a two key combination that will also expand it. I learned this one from Karen Liu of the C# IDE team who also happens to have a blog post with a nice collection of other tips and tricks written last year. Just hit the CTRL key plus the period key (CTRL + .) I really like this approach when performing renames within Visual Studio because it�s totally contextual. Rather than starting with a rename refactoring...(read more) ...
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