Visual Studio Productivity Tips: Cycle Clipboard Ring feature to perform multiple copy/paste
Do you know that, Visual Studio allows you to cycle through your Clipboard data to paste the right content that you copied previously? This built-in feature is known as
In this part of my Visual Studio Productivity Tips series, let's learn how to cycle through your Visual Studio clipboard and make your life easy while copy/pasting code.
Visual Studio Productivity Tips:
When you press
You can either invoke it from the Visual Studio menu
- Open your Visual Studio Editor and navigate to an existing project.
- Open a code file and select few lines. Now press
Ctrl + C to copy the selected code block. - Select few more lines from different part of the code file and press
Ctrl + C to copy the second code block. - Similarly, navigate to another code file and select the third code block. Now press
Ctrl + C again to copy the selection. - Till now we have copied three code blocks into our Clipboard memory. Now time is to cycle through them and paste the desired code block.
- Now, move to a different code line or file to paste the copied content.
- Now, either from the Visual Studio menu click on
Edit |Cycle Clipboard Ring or pressCtrl + Shift + V keyboard shortcut. Keep pressing until you find the desired code block that you wanted to paste.
That's all. If you heard about this feature for the first time, try it out now. You will find it very useful and this will definitely improve your productivity while using the Visual Studio editor. Do note that, Visual Studio keeps a max of 15 items in its Clipboard memory.
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