It is a pain to pick a button name from the "Properties" grid window or even from "Document Outline" window
I want something like :
Right click a button or any other control in a form then from the context menu choose --> "Copy Name"
or a Shortcut key to copy the control name to clipboard
can I have a macro to do that inside visual studio 2010
or is there extension to do that ??
any idea ??
Edit:
CompCopy extension but for Visual Studio 2017 not Visual Studio 2010
As you can see from the shortcut list, there's no such a thing; but you can do it almost as easily as you said:
From the properties window, click the "AZ" button to sort your properties alphabetically; (Name), i.e. the name of the control, will be the third from the top and will stay that way
Click the control you want to copy the name of, e.g. a button
Press F4 to select the property window, where the name will be there for you to copy
Does anyone know the name of the context menu that you get when right clicking a document tab in Visual Studio 2010?
I want to add the "Close All Documents" command to it, but I cannot figure out which context menu it is in the customize dialog.
You can find that menu at Other Context Menus | Easy MDI Document Window.
In Visual Studio 2008, I can see a combo box containing the members/methods defined in my class at the top of the code window:
However, I cannot see this in Visual Studio 2010! Was it removed? Can I get it back?
It's still there, you must have just inadvertently turned it off. To turn it back on, follow these easy steps:
From the "Tools" menu, select "Options".
Expand the "Text Editor" heading.
Select your language of choice (e.g., C# or VB.NET).
Check the box labeled "Navigation bar".
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.
How can I show only the icons in visual studio windows? For example, the properties bar tab shows the icon and the text "Properties". Also the toolbox tab shows the icon the text "Toolbox". I would like to see only icons on tabs.
Do you know where this setting is?
Thanks
In VS2008 you can right click the toolbox and deselect "list view". This will change the view to icon, but only for the current tab.