VisualStudio: Shortcut for when Renaming Variable
In Visual Studio, when you rename a variable name in its definition, there's a little underline in the last letter so if you hover that, you'll get the option "Rename OldVaribleName to NewVariableName" and so rename all entries in that procedure of that variable.
Is there a shortcut for that and not use the mouse?
Solution 1:
These are known as Smart Tags.
You can use CTRL+.
Shift+Alt+F10 is another option.
Solution 2:
By way of an updated answer...
Update for Visual Studio 2022
Same behavior as 2019.
Update for Visual Studio 2019
Same behavior as 2017.
Update for Visual Studio 2017
In Visual Studio 2017 click the variable and then press Ctrl + r, r. This works without an issue (see comments below about differences in Visual Studio 2015 where the whole command had to be repeated).
Visual Studio 2015
In Visual Studio 2015, if you click on the variable and use Ctrl + r, Ctrl + r it will lock onto the variable name and highlight all instances of the variable. Then as you begin typing the new variable name it will rename all instances at once. Hit enter to escape, once you are finished (note: differences might exist between update versions. See comments below).
Edit: One warning on this approach. If you are using Razor in your views, it will not necessarily rename those variables. I haven't done an empirical experiment to see if there are certain cases where it does or does not pick those up, but I have definitely had several cases where it renamed the more strongly typed variables in the server-side code (DAL and Controllers) but not the views.
Solution 3:
Depending on what the default keyboard mapping scheme you use, you might be able to get away with simply pressing F2 to call Rename before ever typing in the text change.
If your version of VS does not have the F2 mapped, you can rename that from within the program's Main Menu:
- Tools >> Options
- In Options Dialog, expand Environment, and then select Keyboard
- Type
File.Renameinto the "Show commands containing" Search box - Select the "Press Shortcut keys" TextBox and click F2
- Click Assign
Solution 4:
Ctrl + h work for me Good luck
Solution 5:
In VS 2008 using C# you can just hit F2, not sure about other versions/languages, though. That also renames files in Windows Explorer if you're too lazy to right-click like I am.