Visual Studio Shortcut of the day: build current project (Alt + B), u
Sometimes when working on a solution with many projects it is helpful to build a single project. For example when working on a large web application, where you are making small changes to an assembly, compiling the change and looking at the output in a browser, it saves time to only build the project that you are changing.
This shortcut requires no custom keybindings, and works by opening the “Build” menu. The name of the current action project (MyKitchen below) will build just the current project, and not the entire solution. My Visual Studio 2019 pictured below also appears to use Shift + F6 to do the same thing.
Visual Studio 2017 and other versions
Alt + B, u
Visual Studio 2019
Shift + F6
Alb + B, u