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RayLoveless
RayLoveless

Reputation: 21108

Make Visual Studio use VS code shortcut keys / key bindings

I've been using VSCode a lot lately and have gotten used to the keys-shortcuts/key-bindings (Ctrl + D, Ctrl + P, Alt+←, etc). However I've recently had some work where I needed to use regular Visual Studio (Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2019) and it's painful remembering two different shortcut keys.

Is there a way to import VSCode key-shortcuts to into regular Visual Studio?

I've looked at this question and there wasn't much help besides manually changing them one at a time.

UPDATE: now the above post answers the question now that I posed Francois du Plessis's answer there.

Upvotes: 109

Views: 33310

Answers (2)

Francois du Plessis
Francois du Plessis

Reputation: 2590

If you go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard. There should be an option to select Visual Studio Code as a Keyboard mapping scheme Screenshot of the configuration

Upvotes: 220

timnavigate
timnavigate

Reputation: 739

You can create your own settings file based on an existing Visual Studio file. Simply add your settings to it from VSCode keybinding setting file.

VSCode's keybinding settings is stored in keybindings.json json-formated file. open file in menu File->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts or on Windows file path like that C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Code\..\keybindings.json

Visual Studio's keybinding settings is stored in CurrentSettings.vssettings xml-formated file. on VS menu: Tools->Import and Export Settings then select 'Import select environment setting' radiobutton and click 'Next' you'll see browser for import your file. on Windows file path like that C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Settings\

You can read more about it at this: Make Visual Studio use VS code shortcut keys/key bindings

Upvotes: 4

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