I am switching from visual studio to clion and find one thing annoying - when I select a file in a project window and press "enter", the selected file opened in the editor but, unlike in visual studio, the cursor stays in the project window and don't jump to the editor. However, if I use mouse and double-click on the selected file, the cursor jumps to the editor, same as in visual studio. I wonder if there is a way to configure "Enter" in project windows to go to editor as well.
I have installed Visual Studio recently but I can't use it. The program opens but I can't click on anything. It looks like the whole window is inactive (gray icon and text in top left corner). I have tried to reinstall it, however, that doesn't work. And if I click on the window, a sound appears (but it's not the error one, probably a warning one). Any suggestions?
edit: I have to close it through task manager. I can't even close it by clicking on the VS 2015 icon at Windows bar and selecting "close program" item in menu
edit2: If I click on the VS2015 window and then type on my keyboard, the weird "dong" sound appears. Same if I just click on the window. However, sometimes I can navigate using keyboard and therefore open window for starting new project. In this window I can use mouse absolutely normally, however, if I click on the OK button, the window quickly close and reopen again. It won't create a new project. So I'm still stuck on the welcome screen.
edit3: Another interesting thing I found. Now when I click on the OK button this error message appears. Should I reinstall it again (for 3rd time), and hope that this time it will be installed right?
PS: I'm sorry for my English - I'm not a native speaker
I had the same problem, it can't be solved by re-install VS2015. It was solved after I TRULY uninstall VS2015 by the tool: https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller/releases
Every time I open up an aspx page it splits my screen between the source and design screens. I can change it over manually each time but it's starting to drive me nuts. Is there a way to make it only open the source window by default?
Right click on any .aspx file in the Solution Explorer, and choose "Open With...". In there, you can choose "Source Code (Text) Editor", then hit "Set as Default".
Tools > Options (Its there somewhere) I managed to change so when I open vb.net forms that the code view opens rather than the designer.
When I am working on a project and compiling all the time, it gets very annoying having to select the code window with the mouse each time after compiling, is there a keyboard shortcut in visual studio to select the code window?
Back when I used Visual Studio, the F4 key went to the next error location in the code and automatically selected the code window. Also try Esc. I think the "next error" keystroke is different in more current versions of VS, so use whatever your keyboard mapping offers.
If you press Alt+W, then Visual Studio opens a list with open windows. You can then select the number corresponding to the window you want to activate. For example, Alt+W,1 activates the first window in the list.
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.