Christophe Herreman

One of the things I'm missing in Visual Studio is a keyboard shortcut to duplicate a line of code. I use this command alot in Eclipse/FDT (Ctrl+Shift+D) and once you get used to it, you can't live without it. After googling around for a moment, I found this VB code that does just that. The great thing is that in Visual Studio you can create your own macro and attach it to a keyboard shortcut.

To create the macro, just go to the macro explorer ("Tools->Macros->Macro Explorer" or Alt+F8) and copy paste the code in a new module.

Now just assing a keyboard shortcut to it:

1. go to Tools->Options...
2. under Environment, click Keyboard
3. in the "Show Commands Containing" textbox, enter "duplicate" (this according to the name you gave the module.)
4. you should now see the macro in the list below
5. choose "Text Editor" from the "Use new shortcut in" list
6. set focus in the "Press shortcut keys" textbox and hit the combination on the keyboard you whish to use for it (Ctrl+Shift+D in my case)
7. hit the "Assign" button
8. you should now see the shortcut in the "Shortcuts for selected command" textbox
9. hit the OK button

And that's it. Enjoy !

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