From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training

Navigate the IDE with the Navigation Helper - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Navigate the IDE with the Navigation Helper

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- [Instructor] To navigate between code editors or tool windows with your keyboard, hold down the Control key. While holding the Control key, tap the Tab key on your keyboard. This navigation helper appears. As long as you continue to hold the Control key, it stays on screen. When the Control key is released, the selected item on the nav helper is selected in Visual Studio, like this. Let's show that again. Control + Tab. On the left side of the nav helper are the tool windows, on the right side are the active files, or you can think of those as your open documents or the tabbed documents. Now I can use the up and down arrows, or the left and right arrows, to select an item. Let's say that I want to move to the Server Explorer. I select it here, and release the Control key. Now when I'm done working with the Server Explorer, I set the focus back into my book.cs file, and we'll try it again, this time I'll move to the MonsterCard.cs file. Control + Tab, select the item I want, release. At this point, you are qualified as a keyboard navigation ninja. Well, that might be overstating it a bit, but I really like that phrase, so let's use it. You, my friend, are a navigation ninja.

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