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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

15 actions and 15 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Open the exception settings Debugging Windows CtrlAltE Source
Open a quick watch on an expression Debugging Windows CtrlAltQ Source
Open a file Anywhere Windows CtrlO Source
Open a project or solution Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftO Source
Save every open file Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftS Source
Open Class View Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftC Source
Open the object browser Anywhere Windows CtrlAltJ Source
Open the output window Anywhere Windows CtrlAltO Source
Open the properties window Anywhere Windows F4 Source
Open Server Explorer Anywhere Windows CtrlAltS Source
Open Solution Explorer Anywhere Windows CtrlAltL Source
Open the toolbox Anywhere Windows CtrlAltX Source
Close the document window Document open Windows CtrlW Source
Move to the next document window Several documents open Windows CtrlF6 Source
Switch documents with the navigator Several documents open Windows CtrlTab 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