Disable F1 in Visual Studio

If you are using Visual Studio on a laptop, especially the smaller ones a.k.a. the Netbook, the keys are way too close to each other and I often end up hitting the F1 button instead of the ESC key.

Here’s a simple tip to disable the F1 key in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 or 2010 to save you from some annoyance.

In Visual Studio, Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard > Select Help.F1Help and say Remove

Simple tip but extremely useful for Netbook owners like me!

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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...: i also removed this key F1 and use this istead of Shift + F12.

are this better ?; December 19, 2010 at 8:28 AM
Suprotim Agarwal said...: yes whatever suits your req!; December 19, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Anonymous said...: This is the best damn post on the internet. THANK YOU!; December 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm amazed you can run Visual Studio on a netbook!; December 28, 2010 at 6:58 AM
Suprotim Agarwal said...: Yes and I run VS 2010 along with SQL 2008 express :) it's an ASUS netbook, less powerful but extremely handy with 1GB RAM + Atom N455 processor; December 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Cris said...: Can you help me about disabling the F1 function so that I can used it for other function like I want to appear a new form when I press F1??
Thank You!; February 17, 2016 at 2:13 AM