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Worst thing about Visual Studio

As many of you C# / .NET developers know, Microsoft Visual Studio is the IDE of choice for us. It's may even be impossible to build older apps in debug mode with anything else; as it seems to be at my current place of work. I have gotten used to using Visual Studio over the years after a somewhat rocky transition from IntelliJ and Java. But there is one thing that continues to be the bane of my relationship with the IDE -

This is that CTRL + P is mapped to PRINT and not open file like EVERY OTHER IDE EVER CREATED!

I know the key mappings can be reconfigured, and I did that when I first started at a C# shop but was horribly disappointed when the first time I upgraded (at VS's suggestion) and my mapping was reset.

I ask why, Microsoft? WHY?? I imagine a developer has not needed to print out their code since shortly after the Apollo program shut down, must you be such a slave to tradition?

Thanks for reading my rant and happy Friday, DEV!

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James Turner

Wait, CTRL+P opens files in other IDEs? That seems so strange to me. The only thing I think of with that keyboard shortcut is print.

That said, I don't think I ever used a shortcut to open files before though I can't say that I've needed to print source code either so... 🤷‍♂️

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AGiesey

Yeah, in all the other IDEs I've used - IntelliJ, VS Code, Sublime, Atom... Thanks for the comment!

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James Turner • Edited

Consistency with other IDEs withstanding, I feel like CTRL+O would be more appropriate as we have CTRL+S for saving. Though we do have CTRL+V for pasting which seems kinda strange given that argument (letter matching action).

A friend of mine mentioned something to me a while back about shortcuts for media players. I think it was that most media players have [Space] to play/pause except I think YouTube Music (though proper YouTube did).

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AGiesey

I think I was misleading, in other IDEs CTRL + P is like search solution / project for a file / class. In VS CTRL+O brings up the computer's file explorer. Thanks for commenting!

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klyse • Edited

I think you can / should use rider instead of visual studio.
That should feel like IntelliJ because it basically is. On my pc Rider is at least 10x faster than Visual Studio :D
jetbrains.com/rider/

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AGiesey

Thanks Klyse, I'll check it out. I think I've heard of it, it's a JetBrains product, right?

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klyse

yes it is.

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Pandita

I dislike how it sometimes freezes and then dies, it's so common that we have reaction gifs in our dev team slack channel for "vs crashed" XD

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AGiesey

haha! This happens to us too, especially with Resharper - which is how we have to run unit tests