Using Visual Studio and VMware 6 together changes the shortcut key for building

One of the nice features in the latest version of VMware Workstation 6 is the ability to start debugging applications straight in a virtual machine. Currently, only Visual Studio version 2005 is supported.

Having installed VMware Workstation 6 recently on one of my machines, I unconscientiously started Visual Studio 2005, opened a project, and tried hitting F6 to build the product. Before I knew it, I was prompted with the following error message:

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Error
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A virtual machine was not specified in the current configuration.
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OK   
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Oops! What? I had to retry several times to make sure I was reading right. I just had completely forgotten about VMware, and didn't understand what was the issue. Then I remembered my previous installation, and noticed that installing VMware will change your trusted F6 key to do something else.

Personally, I think changing a common shortcut key is something that should not be made by default, so here we go. Just for your information.