Just hover the filter bar to discover all the shortcuts that are relevant to your current situation. For example as you’re typing C# code you can quickly press Alt+P to filter down to Properties, or Alt+M to filter out extension methods. As an example, the screenshot below shows using the filter to just show variables and constants in the IntelliSense results for a C++ code file:Īll the filters have convenient keyboard shortcuts as you’d expect. This means if it’s a variable you need, you don’t need to wade through lots of types to get to it. IntelliSense makes exploring a new API faster by allowing you to narrow down the set of values by category. In this post I’ll go into details highlighting features in each area. We’ve focused our improvements in three main areas where we know most developers spend their time: code editing, navigation and debugging.

Download it now to see how you can save time and effort on the tasks that you do day-in, day-out. Visual Studio 2017 RC brings many improvements in this regard, helping you stay even more focused on your program rather than on the tools you use to build it. We know that many developers choose Visual Studio because of its powerful, yet natural, productivity features that help you stay “in the zone”.

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