Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft® Visual Studio®

03.17 Command Prompt Tab Completion

WINDOWS	Tab
CODE	vstipTool0056

When using the Visual Studio command prompt (or any command prompt), you have several ways to use tab completion.

Simple Search

You can type the first letter of a file, as shown in the following illustration.

Then press Tab one or more times to see all the files that begin with that letter.

Wildcard Search

Not as well-known is the ability to use wildcards to match characters. You can use an asterisk (*) to represent any number of characters and a question mark (?) to represent a single character. ...