How to rebind a key to "Continue" command other than F5 in Visual Studio?

Question

In Visual Studio, F5 is used for both of StartDebugging and Continue, which is rather annoying. Because many other IDEs/Debuggers don't act in the same way, e.g. cgdb, IntelliJ IDEA.

For simplicity and universality, I want to use one key-binding scheme for all IDEs/Debuggers. I cannot change other IDEs/Debuggers to bind both of StartDebugging and Continue to F5.

So, my question is:

Is there a way to separately bind StartDebugging and Continue to different keys in Visual Studio?

Paperweight

I created a support ticket at visual studio. Please upvote it to make it happen: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/665439/… – Liggitt

Answer 1

The command you're looking to change is called Debug.Start

This link describes how you can remap commands to different keys:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5zwses53.aspx

Debug.Start is the same command for both Run and Continue, so you cannot map the action to different keys.

Unbosom

No it won't allow you to bind to different keys, that's exactly what he was asking, as I have the same problem, Run and Continue are bound to the same command. – Xiphisternum

Yeah this sucks, it doesn't match other comon debuggers (chrome, intellij, or even visual studio code), would be nice to have to get standardized keys. – Menchaca

I created a support ticket to change it to run and continue at visual studio. Please upvote it to make it happen: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/665439/… – Liggitt

I've voted on that I suggest everyone else do the same! – Ehrlich

You can map multiple keys to the same command. I have both F5 and F8 bound to Debug.Start. It's not identical behavior to other IDEs but practically the same in most cases. – Extracanonical

Answer 2

A workaround that I use is to have two shortcuts bound to Debug.Start. This way it allows me to naturally use the keybinds I'm used to when debugging -- for me that's pressing F9 to continue:

You'll notice there are now two shortcuts bound to Debug.Start:

so you can still use F5 to start debugging and then your chosen key to Debug.Continue when you're debugging.

Melanymelaphyre