Visual Studio - Shortcut to Navigate to Solution Explorer

In Visual Studio 2012 you can now use CTRL+; as this is the default keyboard shortcut for the solution explorer search box.


When using VS 2012 with the Visual C# 2005 keyboard mapping scheme:

CTRL+W, S

I find this easier to memorize: All shortcuts beginning with CTRL+W are for opening or navigating to W indows:

  • CTRL+W, S: S olution Explorer
  • CTRL+W, E: E rror list
  • CTRL+W, R: R esourceview
  • CTRL+W, A: Command window (A ction ...)
  • CTRL+W, T: T askview
  • CTRL+W, Q: Find Symbol Results
  • CTRL+W, X: Toolbo x
  • CTRL+W, C: C lassview
  • CTRL+W, P: P roperties
  • CTRL+W, B: B ookmarks
  • ...

CTRL+ALT+L

should shift focus to the Solution Explorer.

For visual studio 2012 use:

CTRL+[ + S this selects your current document in the solution explorer.