Multiple select in Visual Studio?

Multi cursor edit is natively supported in Visual Studio starting from version 2017 Update 8. The following is an extract of the documentation:

• Ctrl + Alt + click : Add a secondary caret
• Ctrl + Alt + double-click : Add a secondary word selection
• Ctrl + Alt + click + drag : Add a secondary selection
• Shift + Alt + . : Add the next matching text as a selection
• Shift + Alt + ; : Add all matching text as selections
• Shift + Alt + , : Remove last selected occurrence
• Shift + Alt + / : Skip next matching occurrence
• Alt + click : Add a box selection
• Esc or click : Clear all selections

Some of those commands are also available in the Edit menu:

There is a new extension for Visual Studio 2017 called SelectNextOccurrence which is free and open-source.

This extension makes it possible to select next occurrences of a selected text for editing.

Aims to replicate the Ctrl+D command of Sublime Text for faster coding.

Features:

• Select next occurrence of current selection.
• Skip occurrence
• Undo occurrence
• Add caret above/below
• Use multiple carets to edit (Alt-click to add caret)

Visual Studio commands:

• SelectNextOccurrence.SelectNextOccurrence is bound to Ctrl+D by default.
• SelectNextOccurrence.SkipOccurrence is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D)
• SelectNextOccurrence.UndoOccurrence is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+U)
• SelectNextOccurrence.AddCaretAbove is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+Alt+Up)
• SelectNextOccurrence.AddCaretBelow is not bound by default. (Recommended Ctrl+Alt+Down)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=thomaswelen.SelectNextOccurrence

https://github.com/2mas/SelectNextOccurrence

In the Visual Studio Shift+Alt+. / Shift+Alt+,

• Shift+Alt+. - match caret;
• Shift+Alt+, - remove previous caret;

Same function as on VSCode Ctrl+D.

Much more setting Tool - Options - Environment - keyboard. Next in the Show commands containing enter Edit..

Also, can use keyboard schema Visual Studio Code. Available for Visual Studio 2017

For conclusion, nice link Visual Studio All keyboard shortcuts