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Command window helps developers to save number of mouse clicks. First thing I looked for is the key binding that puts the focus to my command window, Ctrl + W, A.

If you are wondering what commands are you going to invoke, just look at the menu bar. For example, the command View.SolutionExplore. Accessing the solution explorer using the View menu takes up  to 2 mouse clicks(although we have a keybinding for SE, which is faster than command, some items in the menu does not have a key binding).

The Command Window comes with intellisense so don’t worry about memorizing long commands.

Alias is the heart of the commanding it could be a shortcut for a command. To see the list of default aliases, just type alias in the command window. The beauty of alias is that you can create your own custom alias.

Create Alias
alias vse View.SolutionExplorer

This command will create a new alias. so that you just have to type vse instead of typing View.SolutionExplorer.

And of course you can also delete your alias if it is not needed anymore.

Delete Alias
alias vse /delete

I think using commands together with macros will be very helpful when it comes to automating your IDE.

Useful links:

http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/vshacks_chap1/index.html

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/vstogglewindow.aspx?display=PrintAll

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c3a0kd3x.aspx