Zooming in the visual studio form designer - visual-studio

I'm using the Visual Studio 2013 form designer to edit a form. The size of the form in the designer window is too big so I want to zoom out.
In applications like Photoshop or Blend I could (among other things) use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-0 to fit the design to the screen.
In Visual Studio how do I zoom out in the form design window?


The Windows Forms designer doesn't zoom. The WPF one does because it's vector based, but WinForms is pixel based you don't get the zooming.
If you've got multiple monitors you can drag the designer to a second screen and work with it that way, or you can press Alt+Shift+Enter to toggle full screen and work with it that way.


in VS 2022 I've been doing some C# and had the same problem with the default grid element (the form) being zoomed way out in the Designer, so it looked extremely small, and the controls were super tiny. I found the following Microsoft page that explains how to change the zoom feature (yes, Visual Studio 2022 has a zoom feature). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/controls/how-to-set-grid-options-for-all-windows-forms?view=netframeworkdesktop-4.8
So, I went into the Tools menu, down to Options, and then in the Options window I scrolled down to the XAML Designer General option. I changed the "Zoom by using" setting to "Mouse Wheel". Using "Ctrl + Mouse Wheel" didn't work for me. And I changed the "Default Zoom Setting" to "Last Used". I closed VS and opened it again. "Last Used" didn't work for me. So, I changed the "Default Zoom Setting" back to "Fit all". Closed VS again (you need to do this for the new settings to take effect). Opened VS again. And everything worked. I am able to use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of the form. The settings I'm using are "Mouse Wheel" and "Fit All".

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There is a select box for this at the bottom left of the editor window - choose 100% ;)
I was unable to find a keyboard shortcut for it, though zooming in and out can be done using Ctrl + > and Ctrl + <.
Please note the horizontal scroll bar must be turned on to see the zoom level.
Tools / Options / Text Editor / All Languages / Scroll Bars
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In Visual Studio 2015/2017/2019 (easy to miss if using a dark theme):

You can try VSCommands extension from Visual Studio Gallery, it adds several new features around zooming in VS2010

Visual Studio 2017 has an extension "Reset Zoom" by Mads Kristensen and it adds a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+0, Ctrl+0).
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.ResetZoom
By default, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+0,Ctrl+0 but can be changed to be whatever you like.
I also have R# and the default shortcut did not show up for me but manually applying it worked.
Go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard and look for the command View.ZoomReset to change the keyboard shortcut.

In Visual Studio Ultimate 2013, at bottom-left from screen:

If you are using latest version you can also resize the content in visual studio by selecting
ctrl+ will zoom in and ctrl- will zoom out.
to do manually goto
preference->settings
and UserSetting file will be opened in the editor change.For default zoom
window.zoomlevel:0
and to zoom in
window.zoomlevel:1,2,3......

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