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Please fix Visual Studio F1 key press

I just spent 2 minutes of my life waiting for my computer to respond and started this blog post before I could go back to work.  I hit F2 trying to rename a file in my solution, but studio quit responding.  I started getting more and more frustrated that studio died.  I had some unsaved files (yes my problem) and didn't want to lose them.

The the screen flashed and "Initializing Help" came up.  Ah yes, the accidental F1 key press that locks studio down why the integrated help is activated.  OMG.  Google is a better "help" than studio has to offer.  I could reassign that keypress to something innocuous, but I've finally learned to live with the studio default keys.  It makes it easier going to someone else's machine.

I've been spending a lot of time lately writing javascript and would kill for an intellisense engine.  It's like programming back in my hobby days writing code in notepad...or actually VI because Linux had "gcc" built into the OS.  The Orcas Studio demos I've seen were impressive for javascript intellisense.  I hope Orcas solves the frozen-Studio-accidental-F1-keypress-malevolent-joke.

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