Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools and closing square bracket problem on AZERTY

There seems to be a problem with the default keyboard mapping of the so called ‘Align Assignments’ found in the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools.

The default shortcut is mapped to Control + Alt + ]. While this is not a problem on a QWERTY these keystrokes are used to type a square bracket on a AZERTY keyboard:

Azerty keyboard

As you can see the character on the lower right corner needs to be accessed with Ctrl + Alt + key or the Alt Gr + key. This way you trigger the ‘Edit.AlignAssignments’ on your keyboard. Thus the ‘]’ doesn’t appears on screen, it merely aligns the current line.

Edit.AlignAssignments shortcut

Solution: remove or remap the shortcut.

Thanks to Gill Cleeren for pointing out this problem.

One thought on “Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools and closing square bracket problem on AZERTY

  1. Thanks! I was missing the closing bracket for too long.

    The end of copy/paste for the ‘]’ is now over.

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