Backspace doesn't work in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio go to:
Tools
Options
Environment
Keyboard
- Find "Edit.DeleteBackwards" command.
- In "Use new shortcut in:" dropdown select "Text Editor".
- In "Press shortcut keys:" click backspace so it would show "Bkspce"
- Click "OK".
Backspace should start working for you again.
I solved this issue resetting keyboard mapping scheme.
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard -> Reset.
This seems to happen to me when I open a solution and there are files already open. I used to close the files, then close and re-open the solution to fix it, but now I just hit Alt + Enter.
Here is the blog where I found this trick.
I get this from time to time in VS2010 as well and simply just using the mouse to change tabs/files seems to always fix it now. Nothing more.