This has been bothering me for a while. I haven’t been able to use any shortcut combination starting with Ctrl+M in Visual Studio. For example, since I don’t use R# I’ve become a fan of CodeMaid for reorganising and cleaning up files. CodeMaid’s default shortcuts all start with Ctrl+M.
Usually for multi-key combinations Visual Studio displays the following message in the status bar:
(Ctrl+M) was pressed. Waiting for second key of chord...
In my case, this message wasn’t showing up.
A quick search showed that other people have found other windows applications stealing the Ctrl+M hook. A popular culprit is Skype. This was the case for me. Note the setting under Hotkeys as opposed to Shortcuts:
Disabling hotkeys solved the problem!
Šmonland 