Make Visual Studio use VS code shortcut keys / key bindings

Question

I've been using VSCode a lot lately and have gotten used to the keys-shortcuts/key-bindings (Ctrl+D, Ctrl+P, Alt+leftArrow, 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.

Found this `.vssetting` file with some of VS Code shortcuts: https://gist.github.com/jaywick/588ea04e11f74c726a9eed3ccc684bf6 . To be used in Visual Studio it needs to be imported via `Tools`->`Import and Export Settings` as described [here](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/identifying-and-customizing-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2019#to-import-only-keyboard-shortcuts) — Renat, Jun 13 '20 at 18:26
@Renat I need to try this out. Can you move this to one of the answers so you can get credit? — RayLoveless, Jun 16 '20 at 20:42
Thanks, but Francois du Plessis' answer is actually a correct one for Visual Studio 2019. So I will leave mine as a comment. — Renat, Jun 16 '20 at 21:50
Does this answer your question? [How to import VSCode keybindings into Visual Studio?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51786288/how-to-import-vscode-keybindings-into-visual-studio) — Mikael, Jun 16 '20 at 22:23
@Mikael now it does answer the question( Now that I posted the answer there ). — RayLoveless, Jun 17 '20 at 18:32
@RayLoveless my bad, I mistakenly flagged the question as duplicate and promptly removed the flag a few seconds later, this comment seems to be auto generated. — Mikael, Jun 17 '20 at 23:04
Is there a way to do the opposite? I want my VS shortcuts in VSCode — Killbunny, Mar 01 '21 at 16:23
For the opposite side, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-vs-keybindings — HamedH, May 06 '21 at 11:28

score 178 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 07 '22 at 11:19

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

edited Mar 07 '22 at 11:19

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answered Jun 16 '20 at 17:58

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This is what I was looking for. Thanks. – RayLoveless Jun 16 '20 at 20:47
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I'm not getting all of the functionality of the vscode key bindings. Could something be interfering? Specifically ctrl+d still copy/paste my current selected text. – Jay Jordan Oct 21 '20 at 18:48
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@JayJordan I believe something might be interfering, testing ctrl+d on both VS Code and VS 2019 (Version 16.7.2) selects the next occurrence of the current selection for me – Francois du Plessis Oct 27 '20 at 14:07
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I have a feeling that Jetbrains Resharper is probably the culprit. – Jay Jordan Oct 27 '20 at 16:26
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On 8.10.8 for Mac I found this on Preferences > Key Bindings > Scheme (the dropdown) – Jeremy Eaton Aug 31 '21 at 00:18
Amazing! Just wondering... wth my VS 2022 has its default set to VC++ 6? – Domi Nov 08 '22 at 09:51
what about the other way around? Visual Studio 2022 C# keybindings to VS Code? – JobaDiniz Feb 05 '23 at 17:14

timnavigate · Answer 2 · 2021-09-23T06:42:01.677

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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

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answered Jun 16 '20 at 08:14

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visual studio only imports `.vssettings` file. how can I import `keyboardbindings.json` – Abraham May 02 '21 at 15:09
@Abraham you can try to create your own `.vssettings` based on `keyboardbindings.json` and than try to import it to Visual Studio. – timnavigate Aug 30 '21 at 13:24
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This is a 1:1 copy from https://newbedev.com/make-visual-studio-use-vs-code-shortcut-keys-key-bindings . Please refer to the sources when you quote like this. – Markus Sep 05 '21 at 13:08
@Markus source link has been added – timnavigate Sep 23 '21 at 10:41
@timnavigate How do you create your own `.vsettings` based on the json file – Bob the Builder May 17 '22 at 04:59
@BobtheBuilder unfortunately, only in manual mode – timnavigate May 17 '22 at 17:17
@timnavigate what is manual mode – Bob the Builder May 17 '22 at 18:08
@BobtheBuilder I meant that to create a `.vssettings` file, you can manually write xml-code of setting, manually transfer xml-syntax to json-syntax of `keybindings.json` file. – timnavigate May 17 '22 at 18:25
@Markus i think that Newbedev is one of those sites that just scrape StackOverflow and make it look like they wrote it. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/pozzgr/what_is_newbedev_and_how_are_they_getting_away/ – Matthei Nov 20 '22 at 22:34

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