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Visual Studio Shortcut Tips by Microsoft Learn
Visual Studio Shortcut Tips by Microsoft Learn
Article • 07/13/2022
Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code
You can navigate in Visual Studio more easily by using the shortcuts in this article. These
shortcuts include keyboard and mouse shortcuts as well as text you can enter to help
accomplish a task more easily.
For a comprehensive list of command shortcuts and a printable keyboard shortcut cheat
sheet, see Keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio.
7 Note
This topic applies to Visual Studio on Windows. For Visual Studio for Mac, see Default
keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio for Mac.
Window management
Task Shortcut
Search
Task Shortcut
Task Shortcut
Place focus in search box in any tool window (except editor) Alt+` when the tool window has focus
Code editor
Task Shortcut
Go To All Ctrl+T
Navigate To Ctrl+,
Go To Definition F12
Toggle between the code editor window and the Peek Definition Shift+Esc
window
Toolbars
Task Shortcut
Create new alias Type alias <new alias> <command> in the Command window
Debugging
Task Shortcut
Start debugging F5