Visual Studio tip: if the cursor is located after a variable followed by a dot without intellisense showing, press Ctrl + Space Bar to bring up intellisense. One common use of this shortcut is if the wrong property or function is chosen you can quickly select the property or function, delete the selection, and press Ctrl + Space Bar to popup intellisense to pick the correct one.

I created a short demonstration to show the shortcut in action:

I hope this helps!

Visual Studio tip: if your cursor is located between the parenthesis in a C# function/method you can use use Ctrl + Shift + Space Bar to bring up the function parameter help popup. 

I created a short video to demonstrate how the shortcut works:

I hope this tip helps!

I created a screen cast to show how to use CodeRush’s SelectionExpand and SelectionReduce commands. This is one of those “I can’t live without” features that I use when editing code. These keyboard commands allow quick selection of blocks of code which speed up your code editing time.

Use it and code on!