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Duplicate lines of code

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Duplicate lines of code

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- Here's a quick tip on a small but useful feature that first appeared in Visual Studio 2017. It provides a way to duplicate code without losing the existing content of the clipboard. You can find this command in the edit menu and it's called duplicate. And I'll be working with the control D shortcut. So the way this works is you put your cursor on a line of code. Here I'm on the end of line 22. Press control D, and you get a duplicate of that line This works if the cursor's at the beginning of the line like this, and it works wherever the cursor is. So if I put the cursor in the middle of line 25, right there, select that text, control D. When you've got text selected it duplicates the text that you selected. If you have your cursor just in the line of code, it duplicates the line. This also works with multiple line examples. So if I select these last two lines like this and do a control D, it duplicates both…

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