I'm wondering if there is a way to customize any shortcut in Visual Studio / VSCode?
E.g. I don't like using the "end" button to go to the end of the current line because I don't want to move my right hand to far away from the main A-Z keys.
Yes, it can be done, you can follow the steps below to change many default short-cuts of Visual STudio:
1, Click Tools -> Options of the bar on the top of the VS.
2, Select Keyboard under the Environment section.
3, Search 'Edit.LineEnd':
4, Change the setting:
After that, you will be able to go to the end of the current line with a key-combination on the left-hand side of the keyboard.
For more shortcut setting changing steps you can refer to this official document:
Identify and customize keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio
For the specific keyboard introduction, I didn't find a official document, but I think just have a look of the name and the original setting will help you make sure this setting is what you want.
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Years ago I read about a visual studio shortcut which, if you had a selection, would move the caret/cursor to the start or the end of the selection.
I've tried searching for it, but can't for the life of me find it again.
In the image below, the text is selected and the caret is at the end, (highlighted pink). This shortcut would move the caret to the start of the selection (highlighted yellow).
Does anyone know what this shortcut is?
I'm pretty sure that this the command called Edit.SwapAnchor. The documentation says that this command:
Swaps the anchor and end points of the current selection.
The keyboard shortcut probably depends on your IDE configuration (i.e., which language you indicated that you primarily develop in on first launch), but in mine it is mapped to Ctrl+R, Ctrl+P. That's the default for C++ developers, matching the default shortcuts for VC++ 6.
Edit:
Indeed, this is the one you're looking for. According to this post on the VS Tips & Tricks Blog, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A.
And back in VC++ 2 it was mapped to Ctrl+Shift+X. :-)
I'd open up Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard, type in "swapanchor" in the search box, and see what it's mapped to in your environment. If you use it frequently, change it to something memorable.
I've started using F# with the visual studio shell and I like the capability to be able to send lines to fsi by highlighting them, but the alt+Enter shortcut is really awkward and I would be much happier with this being on shift+Enter. (mainly since shift+ up/down arrow is select lines already)
Does anyone know how to change this? Thanks.
You can alter the keyboard mappings within Visual Studio. If you go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard, you'll see a window like the image below.
In order to check existing bindings, place the cursor in the "Press shortcut keys:" box and hit "Shft+Enter". You'll then see any potential conflicts in the drop-down box as shown.
In the example below, I'm searching through Global, which means shortcuts for anything in the application. You can switch it to be just the console or whatever you like.
Once you're happy with the shortcut you want to use, you need to select the command from the window containing all of the Action.* lines and then press Assign.
So I don't mean to be trite, but have you tried mapping the key?
So for F# Interactive I see Alt+Enter mapped to:
ClassViewContextMenus.ClassViewMultiselectProjectreferencesItems.Properties
Have your tried mapping Shift+Enter (or whatever) to that command?
Tools->Options->Environment->Keyboard
You should be able to get it all working from there.
I've been diligently memorizing VS 2010 shortcuts based on the cheatsheats on Scott Guthries blog.
The shortcuts in the cheatsheet for WIndows dont match my setup e.g. Ctrl W,C is the cheatsheet shortcut to open the class viewer but mine is Ctrl + SHift, C. Maybe this is because my 08 settings got picked up at some point.
I've changed the shortcuts for viewing windows to match the cheat sheet (Ctrl + W,...) however most of the time Ctrl+W,... isn't working for me, whereas the previously defined shortcuts still work. If I go into the keyboard mappings I can see the shortcuts under global are Ctrl+W.
Anyone got any ideas?
Try going to Tools -> Options -> General -> Keyboard, focus the textbox labelled "Press shortcut keys" and pressing Ctrl+W. The dropdown list beneath it will show all corresponding actions. Action mappings are contextual -- they depend on what has the focus. Furthermore, 'Global' actions only apply if a more localised mapping does not exist. Check for anything applied to 'Text Editor'. If it exists and you don't want it, remove it by digging the action out in the 'Show commands containing' textbox above and clicking 'Remove'.
Also, do you have ReSharper installed? I love R#, but it uses Ctrl+W so the series of shortcuts you're referring to aren't available without being remapped or changing the R# keystroke (which I wouldn't personally, as I use it all the time.)
When I have a file open in visual studio/sql server management studio and have it split in to two panes, I'd like to be able to switch between the panes without having to reach for the mouse. Does anyone know if a shortcut key exists for this?
F6 is your friend.
I think you can assign this by going to Tools -> Options -> Keyboard and searching for SplitPane. You should be able to assign shortcut keys for the following values:
Window.NextSplitPane
Window.PreviousSplitPane
CTRL+F6 will cycle through your files and across panes.
In SSMS: right-click toolbars, customize. Under categories, select Window, then under Commands select "Next Split Pane". Drag to toolbar. Right-click and change name to "Next Split P&ane". You can now use alt-a to change split pane.
On Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2012, I figured out that it is the combination of Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow(or DownArrow). :-)
This was not easy for me for some reason. This method finally worked (similar to Steve Dignan's answer above but I don't have enough rep to comment yet).
In VS 2012, Tools, Options, Environment, Keyboard.
"Apply the following additional keyboard scheme" set to "Visual C# 2005".
"Use new shortcut in" set to 'Global'.
Enter "splitpane" in "Show commands containing" to get only the 2 desired commands.
Select the first one and remove any shortcuts already assigned.
Click inside the "Press shortcut keys" box and use "Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow" for prev and down arrow for next.
If either of those shortcut chords are currently used by something else, you may need to search on that command and remove it from there. Then come back to the split pane commands and Assign.
Don't forget to close VS before you open another instance of it.
For Visual Studio 2010 (maybe others as well) F6 will work to jump between split panes if Tools -> Options -> Keyboard does not use the Visual C# 2005 keyboard layout additionally (which was the case for me for I-don't-know-why reasons - maybe I said yes to an installer/first-start question a long time ago).
Of course you will no longer be able to build your project with F6 afterwards. ;-)
For Visual Studio 2012: Tools -> Options -> Keyboard -> search by Window.Split and add a new shortcut.
Is there a built in way, or a free add-in, that can keep the tab bar of open files sorted in alphabetical order? Once sorted, how can I get CTRL-PageUP/DOWN (or other shortcut) to jump left/right instead of most/least recently viewed file.
Thanks,
Kurt
In VS 2017, using the Productivity Power Tools extension you can navigate to:
TOOLS > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well
Here you'll see a 'Sorting' section, where you can select 'Alphabetically'.
With the new settings applied the CTRL + PAGE DOWN (or in my case, CTRL + ALT + PAGE DOWN) will just flip between next/previous windows.
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In VS 2019, they aren't able to port the Custom Document Well extension so you'll have to vote for this feature to be added to Visual Studio instead.
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I don't have VS 2008, so I'm not sure if the path to get to those setting is exactly the same. If you are unable to find it, you should be able to install Productivity Power Tools from the Extensions and Updates module (also located under TOOLS).
Hope that helps!
It is not perfect but the downward-pointing triangle just to the left of the X that closes the current editor tab does display all currently opened files in alphabetical order.
I use ReSharper's "Go To...":
(source: jetbrains.com)
Use the VS Studio extension "Sort Tabs/Open Editors by name" by omagerio.
Close all your tabs.
Go to this extension settings and uncheck "Sort by full path"
I always switch VS from Tabs to MDI. With tabs on, after working for a while there are so many documents the tab bar gets meaningless.
I use Resharper and Ctrl-T with CamelCase(CC) to get to my classes, or a simple old-fashioned Ctrl-Tab.