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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.

Everything Blocks and structure Clipboard Code editing Comments and review Editing Files and printing Navigation Paragraphs and lists Search Selection System Tabs and windows View and zoom

24 actions and 24 key variants match.

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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
Set a breakpoint on a named function Debugging Windows CtrlB Source
Remove every breakpoint Debugging Windows CtrlShiftF9 Source
Run until the cursor line Debugging Windows CtrlF10 Source
Step out of the current function Debugging Windows ShiftF11 Source
Stop debugging Debugging Windows ShiftF5 Source
Set or clear a breakpoint Debugging Windows F9 Source
Complete the current word Text editor Windows CtrlSpace Source
Format the whole document Text editor Windows CtrlKCtrlD Source
Cut the whole line Text editor Windows CtrlL Source
Show parameter information Text editor Windows CtrlShiftSpace Source
Peek at a definition inline Text editor Windows AltF12 Source
Redo the last undone change Anywhere Windows CtrlY Source
Remove and sort using directives Text editor Windows CtrlRCtrlG Source
Collapse or expand all outlining Text editor Windows CtrlMCtrlL Source
Undo the last change Anywhere Windows CtrlZ Source
Create a new file Anywhere Windows CtrlN Source
Create a new project Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftN Source
Add an existing item to the project Project Windows ShiftAltA Source
Add a new item to the project Project Windows CtrlShiftA Source
Attach the debugger to a process Anywhere Windows CtrlAltP Source
Show quick actions and fixes Text editor Windows Ctrl. 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