4.1. Command Window
As you become more familiar with Visual Studio 2008, you will spend less time looking for functionality and more time using keyboard shortcuts to navigate and perform actions within the IDE. One of the tool windows that's often overlooked is the Command Window, accessible via View 
Other Windows 
Command Window (Ctrl+Alt+A). From this window you can execute any existing Visual Studio command or macro, as well as any additional macros you may have recorded or written. Figure 4-1 illustrates the use of IntelliSense to show the list of commands that can be executed from the Command Window. This list will include all macros defined within the current solution.
Figure 4.1. Figure 4-1
A full list of the Visual Studio commands is available via the Environment 
Keyboard node of the Options dialog (Tools 
Options). The commands all have a similar syntax based on the area of the IDE that they are derived from. For example, you can open the debugging output window (Debug Windows ...
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