While working with Visual Studio, you may some time notice that, there are few Visual Studio commands which are not mapped with any keyboard shortcuts. Thus, working with such commands become very difficult as you need to navigate through the menus every time.
Do you know that, you can easily map custom shortcut keys to Visual Studio commands to ease your life? In this part of my Visual Studio Productivity Tips series, we will learn about the steps.
In our previous Tips & Tricks about Visual Studio, we learnt how easy it is to navigate from one method to another by using the Visual Studio menu
Yes, it is! Here we will talk about the step-by-step process to map a Visual Studio command with custom keyboard shortcuts.
Let's take the previous post as the example. We had the following commands:
Now, to assign keyboard shortcut keys for the mentioned Visual Studio menu commands, navigate to the Visual Studio Options page by clicking
Now, navigate to
Click on the input box under the
Similarly, to assign keyboard shortcut for the other command, search for previousmethod. This will filter out the result and list
Now, click on the input box under the
Navigate to
Similarly, when you find another Visual Studio command, for which no keyboard shortcut has been assigned by Microsoft, you can now easily add your custom keyboard shortcut to it.
Make sure that, you are not overriding any existing mapping. Also make sure that you are saving the changes in the Global settings, so that, the changes are available in your system for all new instances of Visual Studio.
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