I know its minor and easily fixed but I have to say that I really hate this about 3rd party installations to Visual Studio. I get quite used to certain keyboard shortcuts for every day tasks and the last thing I need is my F12 key hijacked.

Some products are great about this aspect of tool development, some aren't. What I didn't expect was the recent F# CTP to do it to me. In fairness, it is still essentially in beta.

One of the great Visual Studio features of late has surely been smart tags in code, which can be expanded using Ctrl+. or the abominable Shift+Alt+F10:

So, if you too are fond of using the Ctrl+. combo in Visual Studio to expand smart tags to do things quickly like include references, insert using statements and correct syntax errors and you want the latest F# goodies then for the time being you'll need to re-map the key combo. Or you could use the alternative wrist bender Shift+Alt+F10, and for me that was not an option.

To do this, open the Options dialogue from the Tools menu in Visual Studio. Browse to the Keyboard options under the Environment heading and re-map the View.ShowSmartTag command.

I've written to F# feedback to let them know about this minor issue.

***UPDATE***

Luke Hoban from  F# Bug reports confirms this workaround and assures me that this will be included in a soon to be released list of known issues. Thanks Luke!