Visual Studio: Accessing any Window from the Keyboard

Posted Wed, Jun 30 2010 22:24 by Deborah Kurata

If you like to keep your hands on the keyboard, here is a tip for accessing any Visual Studio window.

Ctrl + Tab

When you are in Visual Studio, just press Ctrl + Tab. You will get a popup window that looks something like this:

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Keep holding down the Ctrl key and use the arrow key to move around to the desired window. Release the Ctrl key and the selected window gets focus.

Enjoy!

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# re: Visual Studio: Accessing any Window from the Keyboard

Thursday, July 01, 2010 8:47 AM by Greg Shelton

Yep and here is a tip on enabling thumbnail previews when using Ctrl + Tab

blogs.msdn.com/.../15-minute-blog-post-a-hidden-feature-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx

# re: Visual Studio: Accessing any Window from the Keyboard

Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:21 AM by Deborah Kurata

Hi Greg -

Very cool! Thanks for the tip.

# re: Visual Studio: Accessing any Window from the Keyboard

Monday, July 12, 2010 7:21 PM by Jonathan

Hello there. Always cool and nice stuff from you. I was wondering if you can show us how to use new Chart Control in VS 2010. I was experimenting with it and found very useful stuff here code.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart . But when i try to use dataTable as my chart1.datasource it just doesn't work so please can you help me.

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