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Growing dislike for chords in 2005

I'm not sure I will ever appreciate the new "chord" keyboard shortcuts in VS.Net. A big part of the problem is that I don't know how to find, configure, and control them.

I have key sequences that I use always. CTRL+SHIFT+B to build solution, CTRL+B to build the current project/selection. These 2, with CTRL-S and CTRL-SPACE are the absolute must-have items for me.

If I use a new keyboard scheme and map CTRL+B it doesn't work as I expect. When I hit CTRL+B, I get a "waiting for second key of chord".

I find this very frustrating and I revert to the VS 6 setting, throwing away all the new stuff, just to get one thing to work the way I need it to.

Is there some way to find and remove the chords I don't like other than typing each one in "Press shortcut keys"?

Published Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:20 AM by AndrewSeven

Comments

# re: Growing dislike for chords in 2005@ Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:49 PM

Andrew,

Try this great macro for discovering and generating nice a HTML document of all the keyboard shortcuts for VS 2005.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000412.html

todd brooks

# re: Growing dislike for chords in 2005@ Friday, March 03, 2006 4:16 PM

tools-options-keyboard

Roy Osherove

# re: Growing dislike for chords in 2005@ Friday, March 03, 2006 4:24 PM

Methinks: Yes, thats where I am Roy, its a place I like :D
I usualy go via Tools|Customize : Keyboard

Must I look closer? Yes!

So I check again. Lo and behold , after hitting CTRL+B in the "Press shortcut keys", the "Shortcut currently used by" lists all usage, including the chords.

Doh! and thank you Roy.

AndrewSeven

# Growing dislike for chords in 2005@ Monday, November 26, 2007 4:59 PM

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# re: Growing dislike for chords in 2005@ Friday, November 07, 2008 5:33 AM

Thanks a lot. Now I was able to make Ctrl+M working by deleting several Ctrl+M, ...s.

Đonny

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