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    <p>Microsoft have had variations on this problem reported quite a few times via their support portal. <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/665418/some-keyboard-keys-stop-working" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here is one post</a> and if you scroll down you will see a comment with a bunch of other reports all detailing similar(ish) problems.</p> <p>Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to reproduce the problem but are <em>"duping all the similar keyboard locking problems to a central bug, so that we can think a way to log the events if necessary"</em>. Which seems to be a generic response to a lot of these posts. Some people reported that it was simply becuase another window/pane/tab was in focus but I can see the OP obviously did not have this specific problem. Looks to me like one of those random unresolvable bugs. Hope I never get it! There's also numerous forum posts around the Internet, where users stated that removing certain 3rd party plugins has solved this issue.</p> <p>I just spotted <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/616775/certain-keyboard-keys-stop-working-when-using-vs2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this particular post</a> which has a possibly useful comment on it for you (which also link to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/484248/visual-studio-appears-to-randomly-adopt-american-keyboard-layout">this SO post</a>. As I do not have the bug I cannot test its validity for you. The main point of it seems to be something about the keyboard layout switching.</p> <p>I'm sorry for putting all this into an answer when technically it is not an answer and just a mass of research, but there was no way this was gonna fit into a comment. And also sorry for pretty much link spamming, but again there was no way I could extract <em>everything</em> that they said into this post. I hope there is something useful in there for you :)</p> <hr> <p>EDIT: You should probably check the top rated answer below as this seems to solve a number of peoples issues, although I never had the Resharper plugin and still occasionally experienced this, but now I'm on VS2013 and have not had this problem re-occur, so maybe they fixed it...</p>
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