First, I have a suggestion for a themed point release sometime in SF's future. Have one point release dedicated to finding all the opportunities for shortcut keys in all the designers. SF is a wonderfully fast development tool--and it would be faster still if I didn't have to take my hand off the keyboard to mouse around so much during design.

But that's not what I'm asking about here.

In the Maintenance Form Toolstrip, I understand why you wouldn't necessarily set default shortcut keys for Edit, Save, Undo, etc. You don't want to conflict with other logic a developer may implement on a form.

However, it would be valuable to have a way to set the shortcut keys for toolstrip items. I tried editing the Items collection and changing the Text of the Edit button from 'Edit' to '&Edit'. To no avail. The designer resets all the default properties of all the built-in toolstrip buttons, it appears (as an aside, is that intentional?).

Now, I can add a new item and shortcut it just fine: I added another Edit item with the Text '&Edit' and it behaves as expected. So I could workaround the issue I guess, but I'd rather not have to wire up a bunch of fake toolstrip items to get this fairly standard behavior going.

Suggestions?

Thanks!