KeyBinding Element

The KeyBinding element specifies keyboard shortcuts for the commands.

Commands can have both single and dual key bindings associated with them. An example of a single key binding is CTRL+S for the Save command. Dual key bindings require two successive key combinations to trigger a command. An example of a dual key binding is CTRL+K,CTRL+K to set a bookmark.

<Keybinding guid="MyGuid" id="MyId" Editor="MyEditor" key1="B" key2="x" mod1="Control" mod2="Alt" />

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute

Description

guid

Required.

id

Required.

editor

Required. The editor GUID indicates the editing context for which this keyboard shortcut will be active. The value for the default Visual Studio editor is "guidVSStd97".

key1

Required. Valid values include all typable alphanumerics, and also two-digit hexadecimal values preceded by 0x and VK_constants.

mod1

Optional. Any combination of CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT separated by space.

key2

Optional. Valid values include all typable alphanumerics, and also two-digit hexadecimal values preceded by 0x and VK_constants.

mod2

Optional. Any combination of CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT separated by space.

emulator

Optional.

Condition

Optional. See VSCT XML Schema Conditional Attributes.

Child Elements

Element

Description

Parent

Annotation

Parent Elements

Element

Description

KeyBindings Element

Groups KeyBinding elements and other KeyBindings groupings.

Example

<KeyBindings>
  <KeyBinding guid="guidWidgetPackage" id="cmdidUpdateWidget" 
    editor="guidWidgetEditor" key1="VK_F5"/>
  <KeyBinding guid="guidWidgetPackage" id="cmdidRunWidget" 
    editor="guidWidgetEditor" key1="VK_F5" mod1="Control"/>
</KeyBindings>

See Also

Reference

KeyBindings Element

Other Resources

Visual Studio Command Table (.Vsct) Files