Visual Studio keyboard shortcut to display IntelliSense
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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?
Visual Studio Solutions
Solution 1 - Visual Studio
Additionally, Ctrl + K, Ctrl + I shows you Quick info (handy inside parameters)
Ctrl+Shift+Space shows you parameter information.
Solution 2 - Visual Studio
Ctrl + Space
or
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.
Solution 3 - Visual Studio
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.
Solution 4 - Visual Studio
Ctrl+Space should do it.
Solution 5 - Visual Studio
It should be Ctrl + J.
Solution 6 - Visual Studio
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.
Solution 7 - Visual Studio
If you want to change whether it highlights the best fitting possibility, use:
Ctrl + Alt + Space
Solution 8 - Visual Studio
Alt + Right Arrow and Alt + Numpad 6 (if Num Lock is disabled) are also possibilities.
Solution 9 - Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2015 this shortcut opens a preview of the definition which even works through typedefs and #defines.
Ctrl + , (comma)
Solution 10 - Visual Studio
On Visual Studio Community 7.5.3 on Mac this works for me:
Ctrl + Space