Introduction

Firstly if you are not using the CKSDEV Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint. Then please do yourself a favour and download them NOW!

Wes Hackett and the team have been doing an amazing job to save us time when developing SharePoint solutions.

You can download the Visual studio extension via Visual Studio’s gallery.

Keyboard Shortcuts

I have to say that I was a little late to the 1.2 release which I updated to in November even though it was out in August! Anyway this release is the best yet for SharePoint 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. Finally it includes a SharePoint solution deployment profile to update/upgrade your solutions. Finally, I can throw away my version!

Anyway, I noticed that there were lots more keyboard shortcuts (I am pretty sure these have been there for a while) but I wanted to start making use of them as it really makes life much easier.

Fortunately the CKSDEV development team have a strategy for the shortcut conventions so remembering them is made a little easier.

To recycle a process then the two stage shortcut will always use Alt+R

To attach the debugger to a process then the two stage shortcut will always use Alt + A

So here are the shortcuts which I use the most:-

• Recycle SharePoint Application Pools
  • Alt+R, A
• Recycle SharePoint Timer Service
  • Alt R. T
• Attach debugger to SharePoint Application Pools
  • Alt A, S
• Attach debugger to SharePoint Timer Service
  • Alt A, T

  This makes life so much easier when you are in the code, debug, fix, code, debug, fix cycle!