Visual Studio 2017 productivity keyboard shortcuts

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Visual Studio has always been a powerful IDE. The new 2017 release brought several useful keyboard tricks worth discovering:

Action                         Shortcut
------                         --------
Quick Actions (light bulb)     Ctrl+.
Rename Symbol                  Ctrl+R, R (or F2)
Peek Definition                Alt+F12
Navigate Back/Forward          Ctrl+– and Ctrl+Shift+–
Move Line Up/Down              Alt+Up Arrow and Alt+Down Arror

Bonus tip: press Ctrl+Q to open the Quick Launch and jump to any setting byt typing the command's name without browsing the menus.

Small things like this compound over hundreds of edits per week.