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Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts

Building, debugging, editing, and tool windows in Microsoft's full IDE.

84 shortcuts Windows checked September 14, 2026

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This app has a Windows catalog in Shortivo. No other operating system is published for it yet.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Build the whole solution Build Windows CtrlShiftB Source
Cancel a running build Build Windows CtrlBreak Source
Compile the current file Build Windows CtrlF7 Source
Run code analysis on the solution Build Windows AltF11 Source
Set a breakpoint on a named function Debugging Windows CtrlB Source
Pause all running code Debugging Windows CtrlAltBreak Source
Remove every breakpoint Debugging Windows CtrlShiftF9 Source
Open the exception settings Debugging Windows CtrlAltE Source
Open a quick watch on an expression Debugging Windows CtrlAltQ Source
Restart the debugging session Debugging Windows CtrlShiftF5 Source
Run until the cursor line Debugging Windows CtrlF10 Source
Set the next statement to run Debugging Windows CtrlShiftF10 Source
Start debugging Debugging Windows F5 Source
Start without the debugger Debugging Windows CtrlF5 Source
Step into the next call Debugging Windows F11 Source
Step out of the current function Debugging Windows ShiftF11 Source
Step over the next call Debugging Windows F10 Source
Stop debugging Debugging Windows ShiftF5 Source
Set or clear a breakpoint Debugging Windows F9 Source
Collapse the code to its definitions Text editor Windows CtrlMCtrlO Source
Comment out the selection Text editor Windows CtrlKCtrlC Source
Complete the current word Text editor Windows CtrlSpace Source
Copy the selection Anywhere Windows CtrlC Source
Cut the selection Anywhere Windows CtrlX Source
Find text in the file Anywhere Windows CtrlF Source
Find every reference to a symbol Text editor Windows ShiftF12 Source
Find text across files Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftF Source
Find the next match Anywhere Windows F3 Source
Find the next match of the selection Text editor Windows CtrlF3 Source
Format the whole document Text editor Windows CtrlKCtrlD Source

About Visual Studio and its shortcuts

Visual Studio is the full Microsoft development environment, and its keyboard reflects a program with a very large surface: building, debugging, navigating a solution, refactoring and window management each have their own family of commands. The debugging commands are the ones that pay back fastest, since they are repeated dozens of times an hour.

Visual Studio ships several keyboard schemes and lets you switch between them, so the installed default is not universal. Installed workloads and extensions also add their own bindings, and Shortivo publishes the Windows list only.

Where the Visual Studio keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Visual Studio. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Visual Studio, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task