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Set or clear a breakpoint

F9

Windows Desktop app Visual Studio 2022, General profile

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In Visual Studio, F9 will set or clear a breakpoint. It is listed for Windows, and no Mac version is documented here.

Where it works: Debugging

These are the defaults for Visual Studio's General settings profile. Other profiles change them.

Where this comes from

Keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio - Microsoft Learn

Documentation checked on 2026-09-14. That is a documentation review, not a test run inside the application.

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