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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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Quit Visual Studio Anywhere Windows AltF4 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