IDE shortcuts

[Greg Brunet]

In VB6 (and earlier), I could jump right to a control property by
pressing Ctrl+Alt+(first letter) while the control had the focus in the
form designer. I could also move focus between controls by using the
tab or arrow keys. I can't seem to do this in .NET.

Has anyone been able to get these turned back on - or is this
functionality that is simply no longer available? Thanks,

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Greg

[Greg Brunet]

And as long as I'm looking for my old, useful shortcuts, I used to be
able to go from one routine to another in the code window using Ctrl+Up
& Ctrl+Down. These no longer seem to work - are there any alternatives?
Thanks again,

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Greg

[Eric Immerman]

Try the:

Tools>Options>Environment>Keyboard Menu. You can do just about anything
from here including emulating VB6.

Eric Immerman


"Greg Brunet" <gbrunet@semper_soft.com> wrote in message
news:3cd62f13@10.1.10.29...
> And as long as I'm looking for my old, useful shortcuts, I used to be
> able to go from one routine to another in the code window using Ctrl+Up
> & Ctrl+Down. These no longer seem to work - are there any alternatives?
> Thanks again,
>
> --
> Greg
>
>

[Kathleen Dollard]

Greg,

I could not reproduce this property jumping behavior in VB6. Can you walk me
through it?

Kathleen

[Greg Brunet]

Eric Immerman <eimmerman@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Try the:
>
> Tools>Options>Environment>Keyboard Menu. You can do just about
> anything from here including emulating VB6.

Thanks Eric - I did turn VB6 emulation on, but it still doesn't seem to
get me back to the VB6 shortcuts I mentioned. I'll have to try digging
into it more - at least there's a possibility!

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Greg

[Greg Brunet]

Kathleen Dollard <kathleen@mvps.org> wrote:
> I could not reproduce this property jumping behavior in VB6. Can you
> walk me through it?

Kathleen:
If I've got a form with some controls, and a textbox control on the form
currently has the focus, if I press Ctrl-Alt-T, it takes me to the
TabIndex property, followed by the TabStop, Tag, & Text properties. If
I press Ctrl-Alt-N, it takes me to the (Name) property, Ctrl-Alt-H takes
me too Height, etc. Of course once the focus is over in the properties
window, I can also just press up/down, PgUp, PgDn to move around.

In .NET, this doesn't work, even if I'm already in the Properties Window
(it does work there in VB6 as well). I've found it a nice way to move
wuickly to where I want to go. I tend to NOT like having to take my
hands off my keyboard to use the mouse to change focus.

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Greg