Taking Shortcuts

I was building an application in C# this evening, but when I pressed the CTRL + B shortcut key combination expecting to build it, nothing happened. That's because different Microsoft Visual Studio supports different shortcut key mapping schemes. For example, to build in Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, you press F6. In Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, you press ALT + B, U.

Many Visual Studio 2005 editions, such as Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, include seven shortcut key mapping schemes. For example, you could code in C#, yet if you're used to Visual Basic shortcut keys, you could apply the Visual Basic default shortcut key mapping scheme and use those shortcut keys instead. For a list of these shortcut key mappings and how to use them, see Shortcut Keys and How to: Work with Shortcut Key Combinations.

How to: List Current Keyboard Shortcut Mappings describes a macro that generates a list of all the commands in the integrated development environment (IDE) and any shortcut keys mapped to those commands according to the current keyboard mapping scheme.

-- Paul

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