Visual Studio keyboard shortcut to display IntelliSense

Question

What\'s the keyboard shortcut for Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 to display the IntelliSense box if one accidentally hits ESC and w

Answer 1

It should be Ctrl + J.

Answer 2

Ctrl+Space should do it.

Answer 3

On Visual Studio Community 7.5.3 on Mac this works for me:

Ctrl + Space

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

If you want to change whether it highlights the best fitting possibility, use:

Ctrl + Alt + Space

Answer 6

In Visual Studio 2015 this shortcut opens a preview of the definition which even works through typedefs and #defines.

Ctrl + , (comma)