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Aug 26, 2019 6 min

Customize Key Mappings in Visual Studio with Kendra Havens

from Weekly Dev Tips Hosted by Steve Smith, Kendra Havens

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 54, on customizing key bindings in Visual Studio with guest Kendra Havens. Customize Key Mappings with Kendra Havens This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet for weekly group Q&A sessions and have an ongoing private Slack channel the rest of the week. I offer advice, networking opportunities, coding exercises, marketing and branding tips, and occasional assignments to help members improve. Interested? Check it out at devBetter.com. Show Notes / Transcript This week's guest tip is from Kendra Havens. Kendra is a program manager at Microsoft on the .NET and Visual Studio team, where she focuses on the Visual Studio testing experience and productivity tools. She does videos on .NET, VS Code, and Docker and is a frequent conference presenter as well. In fact, we last met up at a recent DevIntersection conference where we were both presenting, and I invited her to share a favorite tip on the podcast. The nature of describing a visual tool in a podcast is challenging, so I have a link to a video in the show notes if you want to follow up afterward. Welcome, Kendra! Thanks, Kendra! I'll post a link to a video showing how to do this in the show notes for anyone that wants to see it. Show Resources and Links devBetter Kendra on Twitter Visual Studio Productivity Tips - Keyboard Command Mapping That’s it for this week. If you want to hear more from me, go to ardalis.com/tips to sign up for a free tip in your inbox every Wednesday. I'm also streaming programming topics on twitch.tv/ardalis most Fridays at noon Eastern Time. Thank you for subscribing to Weekly Dev Tips, and I'll see you next week with another great developer tip.

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Kendra Havens of Microsoft shares her favorite tip for mapping a common activity to a custom keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio.

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