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.
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I find myself having to reach for my mouse a lot to re-select my code after running it.
You can use ctrl+tab
This brings up all current tabs, but just tapping it will bring you to your most recent tab and cursor position.
Is there a way to adjust the cursor blink rate in Visual Studio 2015? For example, in Notepad++ there is this window where I can adjust the blink rate:
Thank you
Its pretty simple and easy
Go to file--->preferences---->settings
Select search item as "cursor"
In the results section. Choose cursor blinking to "solid"
Here you go problem solved.
Visual Studio gets the cursor settings from your OS settings. You can stop the cursor from blinking by changing the cursor blink rate to "none".
Windows XP/7/8/8.1
Go to Control Panel.
Click on the Keyboard item.
Under "Change blink rate" move the slider to "none" position.
Windows 10
Due to the discontinuation of the Control Panel in Windows 10, and the absence of corresponding option in the new Settings app, the easiest way to bring up the Keyboard Properties window is to run the following command from the Run prompt.
control keyboard
The same command can be used in previous Windows versions if you find this method easier.
Visual Studio Code: Note that this does not work with Visual Studio Code per version 1.22.2, because unlike Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code has its own controls for displaying and animating the cursor.
In Visual Studio 2010, if you press ctrl+f, the find menu will have focus and you will not be able to use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll in the main window. Is there a way to adjust this to allow scrolling?
In Visual Studio 2008 if you press ctrl+f, the find menu will have focus but you can still scroll in the main window. This is the behavior I want in 2k10.
As far as I can find there is no setting in VS that allows that. What I've done is added the Productivity Power Tools extension
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef/ .
Its find extension takes over for ctrl+f and allows me to scroll the text editor window even when the focus is on the find dialog.
So i'm using Visual Studio 2010 with a dual monitor setup and I like to have my Build/Team -explorer tab on my other screen.
But the the problem I am raging with is the following:
"sketch" of the problem: http://pastebin.com/X8K3ihGJ
If i'm coding and I switch to the word doc on screen 1 (it pops to the front (y) )
But if i then want to click on the build explorer on screen 2, the vs main screen on screen 1 goes to the front.
Is there anyway it's possible you can set the visual studio windows' on top state's independent from each other?
It's a minor issue but it's hurting me all day :)
Thx!
Try the Productivity Power Tools extension. Dock the build explorer in a floating tab well and enable the "enable independent floating tab well" option in the Document Tab Well settings. This will allow windows to be on top independent of each other.
How do you reset the "Zoom" in VS 2010 and above back to normal?
CTRL+SCROLL WHEEL lets you zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015/2017, but I'd like to get back to the initial 100%.
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
Another option (Visual Studio 2013/2015) is to use Ctrl with the mouse wheel (up to zoom in, down to zoom out).
There's a zoom control in the bottom-left of the code editor. You can pick 100% from there, or type it by hand.
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......