Visual Studio 2005 rules! Today I found the command named "Cycle Clipboard Ring" (on the Edit menu in VS2005 or using the default keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + V). While ago while I was so deep into the Visual Studio 6 development, I used a very popular tool named Visual Assist which was really like the paradise for all Visual C++ developers using VS6. So this tool had the same feature like "Cycle Clipboard Ring" I am referring now. I personally find it very useful to see a quick menu of all of your previously copied code blocks so that you can easily paste them. Love it!
Talking about "hidden" commands, there is one more I discovered today being very popular in Java IDEs in particular. This time this feature is part of ReSharper for Visual Studio 2005 (still a beta and not very stable thus, but still has very useful features without which I feel like I will get back in 1st grade :) ). Well this feature is named "GotoRecentFiles" and on the default keyboard scheme is accessed thru CTRL + E. This gives you a popup window with all of your recently accessed files. Sweet!
To some of you these features may not be very significant, but still when you deal with huge code bases, you want to minimize your time to switch between files and to somehow boost your productivity without dealing with routine things. I hope that this post will give some delight to those of you who are used to such kind of "widgets".
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