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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
Restart the debugging session Debugging Windows CtrlShiftF5 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 over the next call Debugging Windows F10 Source
Find the next match Anywhere Windows F3 Source
Go to a line number Text editor Windows CtrlG Source
Go to the declaration Text editor Windows CtrlF12 Source
Go to the definition Text editor Windows F12 Source
Delete to the end of the word Text editor Windows CtrlDelete Source
Delete to the start of the word Text editor Windows CtrlBackspace Source
Navigate back to the previous location Anywhere Windows Ctrl- Source
Navigate forward to the next location Anywhere Windows CtrlShift- Source
Move to the next split pane Split editor Windows F6 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