Reputation: 38255

Visual Studio keyboard shortcut to display IntelliSense

What's the keyboard shortcut for Visual Studio to display the IntelliSense box if one accidentally hits ESC and wants the box come back again?

Upvotes: 166

Answers (12)

babak abbasi

Reputation: 1

You have to have your cursor on the code which has a red line under it. Now press :

Ctrl + K + I

Upvotes: 0

Chris Pavs

Reputation: 205

The shortcut to bring up the IntelliSense box is called Edit.ListMembers. It defaults to:

Ctrl + J

The shortcut to automatically select the most likely option is Edit.CompleteWord. It defaults to:

Ctrl + Space

Upvotes: 0

Raphaël Roux

Reputation: 356

On Visual Studio Community 7.5.3 on Mac this works for me:

Ctrl + Space

Upvotes: 2

TTT

Reputation: 28934

If you have arrived at this question because IntelliSense has stopped working properly and you are hoping to force it to show you what you need, then most likely none of these solutions are going to work.

Closing and restarting Visual Studio should fix the problem.

Upvotes: 5

Dan Bechard

Reputation: 5291

In Visual Studio 2015 this shortcut opens a preview of the definition which even works through typedefs and #defines.

Ctrl + , (comma)

Upvotes: 2

mimipofi

Reputation: 695

If you want to change whether it highlights the best fitting possibility, use:

Ctrl + Alt + Space

Upvotes: 4

Alexander Chernosvitov

Reputation: 698

The most efficient one is Ctrl + ..

It helps to automate insertions of using directives. It works if the focus is on a new identifier, e.g. class name.

Upvotes: 27

Peter Gfader

Reputation: 7741

Additionally, Ctrl + K, Ctrl + I shows you Quick info (handy inside parameters)

Ctrl+Shift+Space shows you parameter information.

Upvotes: 213

BrunoLM

Reputation: 100321

Ctrl + Space

Ctrl + J

You can also go to menu Tools → Options → Environment → Keyboard and check what is assigned to these shortcuts. The command name should be Edit.CompleteWord.

Upvotes: 205