What is the shortcut to close the Solution Explorer window? I know how to open it with CtrlAltL. How do we close it?
ShiftEsc is what I needed.
Press CtrlAltL to bring the Solution Explorer into focus.
Press ShiftEsc to close it.
Close Tool Window: ShiftEsc
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I switch between many projects, all having triple panes and many tabs open. When I'm not working on a project I close the window using the GUI by the normal red close window button. When I open it again all my tabs are as I've left.
How do I do it with a keyboard shortcut? Cmd+W closes the current tab (which I don't want), Cmd+Q quits Vscode completely (which I don't want either), closing all windows. How do I close a single Vscode window with keyboard, identical to hitting the close button with mouse, so that when I reopen the window in the future all my tabs are intact?
Okay found the shortcut after searching with a better query on Google. It is:
Cmd + Shift + W
We can close a Tool Window with Shift+Esc. What is the shortcut to hide a Tool Window? I have tried Ctrl+M, Ctrl+H to no avail.
For example, when the Locals window is open, I can close it with Shift+Esc but not hide it.
Closing a tool window preserves its state and actually works like hiding. Maybe you want to assign a shortcut to the Window.AutoHide command (also available in the main Window menu).
In Toad for Oracle, I click on menu "Help > Contents" to open the help window. Then I press alt+tab to return to the Toad window, but I doesn't return to the Toad window, it goes to other window. So I have to click (with the mouse) on the Toad window to select it. Then I press alt+tab to return to the help window, but I doesn't return to the help window, it goes to other window. So I have to click (with the mouse) on the help window to select it.
Any shortcut to change from Toad window to help window, and viceversa?
Alt+Tab switches between open applications. The help and main Toad window are lumped together as the same application for Alt+Tab purposes. Alt+ESC will do what you want. It switches between open windows although it's a bit more of a stretch to reach.
Every time I start debugging in VS2013, the intellitrace window hides the solution explorer window. I click back on the solution explorer tab and end debugging. Then, when I start debugging again, the intellitrace window again hides the solution explorer and I have to click on the solution explorer tab again to bring it up. How do I stop this behavior and set it so that the solution explorer always is the active tab when I start debugging? Thanks before hand.
Try grabbing the solution explorer window and sticking it to one of the side panels. This way, you can view both the debug window and the solution explorer at the same time.
I would say this is a more useful view anyway, otherwise I'd be endlessly tabbing between the two throughout the day
It's kind of annoying to have to use my mouse to close the windows that appear when when summoned by my keyboard e.g. I find usages of an object by hitting Shift+F12, or any of the other dockable windows that appear for various other reasons.
Ideally these would close when I hit escape, but this does nothing. Alt+F4 wants to close the entire visual studio.
Is there any keyboard shortcut to close these windows?
To be clear, this is the kind of window I'm referring to:
According to Default Keyboard Shortcuts in Visual Studio 2015, you can use the following:
Shift + Esc - Window.Close (window must have focus)
Ctrl + F4 - Window.CloseDocumentWindow to close the current tab
It appears #inksmithy has answered the question, even though it doesn't work for me. I reckon it's because I'm using ReSharper and he isn't.
For what it's worth, I just discovered Ctrl + Shift + F4 works for me.
I've decided to mark #inksmithy's answer as correct but if that doesn't work for you try my one.
Set Focus to docked window (e.g. [Ctrl]+[g] for immediate window)
Press context menu key (at the right side of the space key)
Press the key to hide that window, indicated by _ in the contextmenu
(depends on your language)