While a back ago I did a little test. I read the Deliberate Vim book, did the exercises and decided to go full Vim. So I installed ViEmu to my VisualStudio 2015. Aaaand had a few struggles. Some shortcuts conflicts that I had to solve manually and still it wasn’t so convenient to use.

I ended up skipping ViEmu for VS2017. But it didn’t last for long - one day I noticed I’m really used to some of the Vim commands and it’s more difficult to work now without them. So I did some research, and got a great recipe!

If you have anything keyboard-changing installed already (like Resharper) - reset all shortcuts to default - so you get only VisualStudio’s default key bindings. After that install ViEmu and let it take all the shortcuts it needs. Finally, install Resharper/apply Resharper scheme. Those are the steps that will provide minimal friction while working with Vim in VS.

Bonus round: For VisualStudio Code - just install a plugin, it works great!