Starting with Visual Studio 2022, you can navigate between subwords using the Subword Navigation feature. This is very convenient when you want to move the caret to a part of an identifier, for example. So PascalCaseIdentifier has 3 sub-words, Pascal, Case, and Identifier. Using subword navigation, you can move the caret to the next or previous subword. Note that it also works with other separators, such as _.
#Method 1: Ctrl + Alt + Left and Right
You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Left and Ctrl + Alt + Right to navigate to the next or previous subword:
You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left and Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Right to select the next or previous subword:
#Method 2: Always enable Subword Navigation
You can change the configuration of Visual Studio to always enable Subword Navigation. When you enable this option the shortcut Ctrl + Left and Ctrl + Right will navigate to the next or previous subword.
Visual Studio Options - Subword navigation
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