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Toggle line comments

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Windows Desktop app Visual Studio 2022, General profile

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Press Ctrl + Slash to toggle line comments in Visual Studio. It is listed for Windows, and no Mac version is documented here.

Where it works: Text editor

Needs Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11 or later. Ctrl and K, then Ctrl and slash, works too. 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.

The same task in other apps

Comment lines with line comments Android Studio Cmd + /
Add or remove a single line comment DBeaver Ctrl + /
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Comment or uncomment a line Power BI Desktop Ctrl + /
Comment or uncomment lines RStudio Cmd + Shift + C
Comment out the selection SQL Server Management Studio Ctrl + K then Ctrl + C
Toggle a line comment Sublime Text Cmd + /
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More Visual Studio shortcuts

Collapse or expand the current block Ctrl + M then Ctrl + M
Uncomment the selection Ctrl + K then Ctrl + U
Undo the last change Ctrl + Z
Delete to the end of the word Ctrl + Delete
Delete to the start of the word Ctrl + Backspace
Quit Visual Studio Alt + F4
Create a new file Ctrl + N
Create a new project Ctrl + Shift + N

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