Tools in Visual Studio Code

First, you should become familiar with Code’s keyboard shortcuts. There are convenient single-page PDF files that you could print out on these keyboard shortcuts, one for each of the common operating systems, Windows, macOS, and Linux, and they are found at the following link: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings#_keyboard-shortcuts-reference.

When you have multiple files (tabs) open simultaneously, you can use Alt + Left Arrow and Alt + Right Arrow to navigate between them. You can also use Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab (reverse order).

Refactoring features

Many of Code’s refactoring features are activated by pressing Ctrl + Shift + R.

Code has a subset of refactoring commands, some of which are shown in the following list:

• Rename symbol (F2): Renaming is a common operation related to refactoring source code, and all instances of the symbol across all files will be renamed.
• Extract...