10 Visual Studio Code Shortcuts to Master

10 Visual Studio Code shortcuts for Windows, Mac, and Linux

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Productivity and speed are important when developing software. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has a lot of shortcuts to help you with just that. Shortcuts allow you to quickly run tasks that you frequently do without letting your hands off the keyboard.

Here is a selection of some of the most widely used VS Code shortcuts. I hope they help you become more productive as you develop software in VS Code.

1. Comment code selection

Comments are important in making our code more readable. The shortcut below works both for commenting and uncommenting a code selection. Simply highlight the code you want to comment or uncomment and press the shortcut below.

Windows & Linux:

Ctrl + /

Mac:

Cmd + /

2. Find and replace

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