Quickly Move Between Methods in Visual Studio

Quickly Move Between Methods in Visual Studio

Similar to navigate around Visual Studio Files and IDE, You can quickly move between methods in Visual Studio.  Faster navigation to codes, files, and IDE Tools Windows enable key productivity during development. quickly move between methods in Visual Studio is also one of them. The Visual Studio IDE has several sets of the options to move around files, tools and even code. Also, for code navigation boost up, you can also try code navigation by Bookmarking your code in Visual Studio

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Quickly Moving Between Methods in Visual Studio

Visual Studio provides options for “Next Method” and “Preview Method” navigation.  This will help you quickly move back and forth through the method.  You can find this two option from Edit > Next Method | Edit > Previous Method

 

Quickly Moving Between Methods in Visual Studio - Move Next

 

Assigning Keyboard Shortcut

To make the navigation much faster, you can easily add Keyboard shortcut for the menu options.  Open the Customize window ( Right click on Toolbar > Select Customize), and select the “Edit” option from “Menu Bar

 

Quickly Moving Between Methods in Visual Studio - KeyBoard Shortcut

Select the respective menu option, let’s say select “Next Method” and then click on “Keyboard

Alternatively, open the Options Dialog Window, and move to Keyboard section. From there also you can find and assign shortcut keys.

Hope this help.

 

Abhijit Jana

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