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.
4 actions and 4 key variants match.
- Visual Studio Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Run code analysis on the solution Build | Windows AltF11 | Source |
| Pause all running code Debugging | Windows CtrlAltBreak | Source |
| Collapse the code to its definitions Text editor | Windows CtrlMCtrlO | Source |
| Insert a code snippet Text editor | Windows CtrlKCtrlX | 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