Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters.  These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio.

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This week’s updated posters incorporate a number of improvements:

  • Letter-sized (8.5”x11”) print ready versions are now available
  • A4-sized (210x297mm) print ready versions are now available
  • The goofy people pictures on them are gone (thank goodness)

The posters are in PDF format – enabling you to easily download and print them using whichever paper size is in your printer.

Download the Posters

You can download the VS 2010 Keybinding posters in PDF format here.

Posters are available for each language.  Simply look for the download that corresponds to your language preference (note: CSharp = C#, VB = VB, FSharp = F#, CPP = C++). 

Hope this helps,

Scott

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30 Comments

  • Oh, I wish to had such poster! Thanks for sharing this :)

  • Hi Scott,
    I am a big fan of yours, I admire your new ideas and knowledge. This is my first reply to your blog. It is so nice of you sharing as always. Take care and always enlighten us all for your brightfull blog entries.

  • Thanks Scott! My co-workers and I had a bit of a laugh over the last batch of shortcut posters, where amid all the careful cramming of so much information into so little space, there was a giant clipart dude smiling out from a good half page or so. He was creepy enough to prevent me from sticking it on the wall of my workstation.

  • Great thanks scott, time ti print it and hang on my wall

  • Thanks, the formatting is good and the use of PDF makes it light.
    Wished someone will put the C# 4 Language Specification in a better format with clickable table of contents.

  • Scott, your blog is on my top ten list I look forward to reading every day! Thanks for taking the time to share with us.

  • Is there a set of shortcuts that doesn't have the multi-key (chord) shortcuts or maybe a lot fewer of them?

    I use a small number of simple shortcuts; The only chords I use are the comment and uncomment.

    In 2008, it takes quite a few changes to be able to get CTRL+B to build and CTRL+SHIFT+B to build solution instead of "waiting for second key of chord".


  • Good on hand poster! Print and put on desc )

  • Hey Now Scott,

    Great Post!

  • Scott,

    I like the format of the poster, and the 8 1/2 x 11 layout is convenient to print, but it makes the font too small (7 pt) for me to read easily. Do you know if they have any recommendations on how to scale it up? Or can they make a version that has larger (e.g. 9 or 10 pt) type and maybe spreads to 3 or 4 pages instead of 2? Helpful for developers over 40.

  • Note for future downloaders, the HiRes versions of the pdfs (well, at least the C# one) has the printer registration marks for sending to a printer company. The low-res one is the full-page version.

  • Can anyone tell me what is happening when you hold ctrl and hit R then A (keeping ctrl depressed)?

    I done this in error attempting to run all tests in my solution, and was dumbfounded at the bizarre behaviour of my tests: some tests that would pass if I ran them alone (or later when I used the correct shortcut) failed in a predictable fashion (the same tests would pass or fail each time). I do not have resharper or anything like that installed.

  • Hi Scott,

    Thanks for sharing this link.

  • Any chance we could get the same for the "General Development Settings"? We are a VB shop on the back end, but back when VS 2002 came out most of us were used to the Visual InterDev key bindings so we have always selected "General Development Settings". Are their major differences between General and say C#?

    They look very nice!

  • @bitslogic,

    >>>>>>>>> This is my first reply to your blog. It is so nice of you sharing as always.

    Cool - thanks!

    Scott

  • @James,

    >>>>>>>> He was creepy enough to prevent me from sticking it on the wall of my workstation.

    I thought that those people in the original posters were pretty creepy too - thankfully they are gone now :-)

    Thanks,

    Scott

  • @A,

    >>>>>>>>> Is there a set of shortcuts that doesn't have the multi-key (chord) shortcuts or maybe a lot fewer of them?

    You can actually customize any of the keybindings if you want - that way you can map common actions to a single key if you prefer.

    Go to Tools->Options and select the keyboard node on the left to map keys to any action.

    Hope this helps,

    Scott

  • @J. Jones,

    >>>>>>>>>I like the format of the poster, and the 8 1/2 x 11 layout is convenient to print, but it makes the font too small (7 pt) for me to read easily. Do you know if they have any recommendations on how to scale it up? Or can they make a version that has larger (e.g. 9 or 10 pt) type and maybe spreads to 3 or 4 pages instead of 2? Helpful for developers over 40.

    Unfortunately I don't know of any scaled up versions. What you could probably do, though, is take it to Kinkos and they might be able to print out the high-res version on a bigger paper size.

    Hope this helps,

    Scott

  • @Matt,

    >>>>>>>>>> My installation of VS2010 does not allow me to enter a new line character when pressing SHIFT+RETURN in the C# code editor. Everyone else at work can do this.

    This sounds suspiciously like you might have a VS plugin installed that is misbehaving. What plugins are you currently running with?

    Thanks,

    Scott

  • @Eric Blair,

    >>>>>>>>> Can anyone tell me what is happening when you hold ctrl and hit R then A (keeping ctrl depressed)? I done this in error attempting to run all tests in my solution, and was dumbfounded at the bizarre behaviour of my tests: some tests that would pass if I ran them alone (or later when I used the correct shortcut) failed in a predictable fashion (the same tests would pass or fail each time). I do not have resharper or anything like that installed.

    Hmm - I'm not sure what the problem is. Send me email (scottgu@microsoft.com) and we can help.

    Thanks,

    Scott

  • @Michael,

    >>>>>>>>>> Any chance we could get the same for the "General Development Settings"? We are a VB shop on the back end, but back when VS 2002 came out most of us were used to the Visual InterDev key bindings so we have always selected "General Development Settings". Are their major differences between General and say C#?

    Good question! I just sent mail to someone on the VS team to try and find out the answer to this.

    Hope this helps,

    Scott

  • Good, because I made local copies of the old shortcuts in letter-sized format (using Photoshop), so at least this is official!

  • HI Scott, thanks for the reply.

    I'm familiar with changing the key bindings, the difficulty I've had configuring simple shortcuts like CTRL+B is that I have to find and unbind all the chords that start with CTRL+B before my simple one will work.

  • Why is there NEVER a poster for us who use the General Development Settings?

  • That's great thank you

  • Very nice, thanks!

    Kind of a derail but I figure I'll ask this here...I've noticed in VS2010 somehow my shift+delete randomly stops working until I go into options and do a "reset to defaults". I don't have any add-ons installed on this copy and am not making any hotkey changes from the defaults, has anyone noticed anything similar or have any idea what might be happening here?

  • That's great! Thanks Scott.

  • Nice! Very useful!

  • Great additional information, now it save you time. All you need now is to familiarized these shortcuts.

  • Very nice.Thanks Scott. It's usefull for me..

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