Does anybody know how to change the pop-ups font in Visual Studio ?
I need fixed size fonts and I spent already countless time browsing.
Thanks.
Those are called Tooltips, not pop-ups. And yes, you can change their font settings.
Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors.
From the drop-down menu, select Editor Tooltip:
Change the font settings as you wish and click OK.
Before:
After:
I am trying to make the UI of Visual Studio 2017 smaller, but I can't find any settings for that.
I know I can resize the code-content, but I am looking for a way to make the Solution Explorer, Properties, Toolbar, etc. smaller.
Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors
In "Show Settings for" chose "Environment"
In "Font" replace Automatic to a different font, then change the size.
Change the font size of that setting, all Font size in the Explorers (Solution Explorer, Server Explorer and Toolbox) and menus will change.
We can change font for VS IDE items in the Options\Environments\Fonts and Colors dialog. However, I still cannot find how to do that for the Properties pane. Can anybody help me with that?
Working mainly with VS 2013 Professional or Community Editions.
Use > tools > options > Fonts and Colors (Show settings drop down)
Environment font for menus etc
Locals Window for properties window
You must restart the IDE to make the properties window changes
Usually there are tabs like Toolbox, Properties, Error List, Output, Find results... on the side of screen. When I mouseover to those hidden windows, the window will popup. Is there any way to disable it? Thanks.
You can go in Tools > Options > Environment > Tabs and Windows and uncheck "Show auto-hidden windows on mouse over".
Is there a way to quickly maximize (and then restore) Visual Studio 2010 panels? For instance, I'd like to temporarily maximize the Output window or unit test results window. In Eclipse, I would just double-click the window tab, but in VS, this undocks the window.
The desired behavior is: double-click to maximize the window, then double-click it again to restore the panel to its original position.
Use this keyboard shortcut: Shift-Alt-Enter
It will maximize your current panel similar to Eclipse, but it will use the full screen unfortunately, not just the whole Visual Studio window. I prefer the way Eclipse does it, but this does help in Visual Studio land.
This feature has been added to Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools 2013 ("Double click to maximize windows"), which is free to download.
This new feature allows double-clicking any window tab to maximize it to full-screen mode and restore it back to its initial docked state - without having to worry about float operations or changes to your window layout.
In Visual Studio 2010, you can double-click the title bar of a given panel to put it into float mode, then use it just like any other window (maximize, Windows 7 dock, etc.). Ctrl-double-clicking it again will turn it back into a docked panel.
You can also right-click on the title bar and select Dock as Tabbed Document to display the panel in the same way the code windows are displayed.
In Visual Studio 2017, on a focused tab
Alt + -, F
Alt + Space, X (see UPDATE)
UPDATE (Windows 10)
Win + Up
From the View menu, pick Full Screen menuitem.
Note: when you select the View menu, you will notice that the shortcut for selecting Full Screen is mentioned, Shift+Alt+Enter (which was mentioned previously in the Answers).
Platform: Visual Studio Professional 2017, Version 15.5.7 on Windows 10, 64-bit
Closest the Eclipse behavior is to follow these steps:
Right-click the window title bar, select Float
Double-click the window title to maximize
Right-click the window title, select Dock
After these steps, double-clicking and Ctrl+double-clicking the window maximizes / restores itself
Here it is as a key board shortcut for commando types:
Ctrl+Tab Switch to your desired window/panel.
Alt+- Show the dock menu.
T Choose 'Dock as tabbed document'
Right click title bar, then choose 'float', it will only get that window, not the whole panel. Then double-click to maximize.
Also, the commands are
Window.Float
Window.Dock
and you can assign them keyboard shortcuts under tools\options. So for example I mapped them to Ctrl-Shift-F7 and Ctrl-Shift-F8, and then after once maximizing the Output window, henceforth if I have the output window docked, I just focus it and then a key makes it big and other puts it back, hurray.
If you have already installed Productivity Power Tools 2017 (PPT), and the double click file tab is not working or any other feature in PPT, just reset the PPT and it should work just fine after restarting visual studio 2017.