Question

As the question title says: Is there a Visual Studio keyboard shortcut (or series of shortcuts) to rename file in Solution Explorer?

I am using VS2008 and manually doing this by right-clicking on a file in the Solution Explorer and selecting ‘Rename’, but this is a pain in the behind.

Answer 1

Depends on your settings profile:

In the C# profile, F2 does this.

you can assign a shortcut to any key:

• Tools -> Options, Expand Environment and select Keyboard
• Enter File.Rename into the text box
• Put the Focus on the “Press Shortcut keys” box and hit ‘the key you want to assign’
• Click Assign