SSMS 2008 keyboard shortcuts not working?

I have a habit of using keyboard shortcuts now and then.  In the SQL Server Management Studio I have some favorites like CTRL-N to open a new query window, F7 to get the Object Explorer Details window or CTRL-SHIFT-M to get the popup to fill out the parameters in a generated template.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about you can try the following: in the Object Explorer, right-click the Stored Procedures node under the Programmability node of one of your databases and choose New Stored Procedure.  This will open the Create Procedure template in a new query window.  It looks like this:

-- ================================================
-- Template generated from Template Explorer using:
-- Create Procedure (New Menu).SQL
--
-- Use the Specify Values for Template Parameters 
-- command (Ctrl-Shift-M) to fill in the parameter 
-- values below.
--
-- This block of comments will not be included in
-- the definition of the procedure.
-- ================================================
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- =============================================
-- Author:        <Author,,Name>
-- Create date: <Create Date,,>
-- Description:    <Description,,>
-- =============================================
CREATE PROCEDURE <Procedure_Name, sysname, ProcedureName>
    -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
    <@Param1, sysname, @p1> <Datatype_For_Param1, , int> = <Default_Value_For_Param1, , 0>,
    <@Param2, sysname, @p2> <Datatype_For_Param2, , int> = <Default_Value_For_Param2, , 0>
AS
BEGIN
    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
    -- interfering with SELECT statements.
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    -- Insert statements for procedure here
    SELECT <@Param1, sysname, @p1>, <@Param2, sysname, @p2>
END
GO

As you can see, it mentions the keyboard shortcut in the comments on top.  Hitting CTRL-SHIFT-M opens the following popup:

In this popup you enter whatever values you’d like to fill in.  When clicking OK, SSMS replaces the placeholders with the filled-in values.

So to cut to the chase, since I started using SSMS2008 I occasionally noticed that these keyboard shortcuts didn’t work anymore.  At first I didn’t give it too much thought but when it started to really bug me I decided to check it out.  And it appears to be a bug of some sort.  There’s a really easy fix though.

Switching to the 2000 keyboard layout and switching back to 2008 will fix the problem.  To switch keyboard layouts, go to Tools > Options.  Under Environment > Keyboard you can select two different keyboard schemes.

A “Thank you” goes to Tibor Karaszi because it was on his blog that I found the solution.

Microsoft is aware of the issue as well, but there appears to be no info on what causes it.