Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.

#16 Understanding and Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

Thursday, January 22 2009

Visual Studio has a ton of Keyboard shortcuts built in. In fact, tere are HUGE PDF Prints available for VS2005 C# and Visual Basic, as well as VS2008 C# and VS2008 Visual Basic. If you want to change or add to the current keyboard shortcuts, this video shows you how.

One of the first keyboard shortcuts I add is [CTRL]+[ALT]+[P]. This shortcut isn't used for anything, so I'm not overriding anything built in, but I bind it to "Debug.AttachToProcess" which is much faster than navigating to Debug | Attach to Process.

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#16 Understanding and Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

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Visual Studio Tip / Trick #016 English Transcription:

Today’s Visual Studio trick no 16 is a video repost of Sara Ford's original trick published August 2007. Today’s trick is keyboard shortcuts so from the Tools menu under Options you can select keyboard under environment node. And all of the commands available in Visual Studio are listed in this commands list box. To filter the list box you can simply type in the show Commands containing. So I have typed in debug and if I scroll down to attach to process you can see that I have globally assigned a keyboard shortcut of [CTRL]+[ALT],[P] Now I can remove that; and then I can assign it again here. So there are three things going on, we can filter the list box to find the command we are looking for, once we find the command we can see the command that is attached to it or can assign our own command to that particular option. Now in order to find a command you may also (instead of typing text in show contains) you can simply press keyboard shortcut inside the press shortcut keys and that will then show you the command currently attached to that keyboard shortcut. Lastly you can create the your keyboard shortcut with a particular focus so depending on what part of Visual Studio you are working in that keyboard shortcut will be active. Global of course means throughout the entire Visual Studio.