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Use Ctrl+Tab to cycle through windows - Visual Studio Tutorial
From the course: Visual Studio Developer Tips
Use Ctrl+Tab to cycle through windows
- [Instructor] In this tip, I'll look at how to move around the active windows in Visual Studio using the keyboard. Now let's talk about the types of windows you have in Visual Studio first. We have tool windows and we have editor windows. The tool windows are things like the Solution Explorer, the Class View, the Toolbox, and the Error List. The editor windows are the ones that open when you open a file. So if I go in here and I open this AboutWindow.xaml file, that's loaded into this tab, so these are the editor windows. Now, the way we're going to move around today is with the Control + Tab keystroke combination. So what you do is you hold down the Control key and don't let go, and then you tap or hold down the Tab key. I'll just tap the Tab key, and that brings up this window, and this tells me which window currently has the focus. I'm in the MainWindow.xaml. I can see that in two places. This file selected here, and it also tells me at the top that I'm in MainWindow.xaml. Now, to…
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Brace matching in C#4m 57s
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Select vertical sections of code with Box Selection5m 50s
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Move code with keyboard shortcuts2m 49s
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Find duplicate code with the code clone analysis tool4m 8s
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Paste JSON/XML as class3m 42s
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Colorize output in the build window4m 37s
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A better way to redock a tool window3m 57s
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The Open Command Line extension3m 39s
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Get consistent editor settings with EditorConfig3m 46s
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Git at a glance: Updates to the Visual Studio status bar4m 1s
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Surround a block of code with a code snippet2m 5s
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Understand the document tab features3m 35s
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Clipping to a border using an opacity mask5m 53s
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Insert Line with Ctrl Enter2m 21s
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Use the File Tab channel3m 31s
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Use the Add New File extension4m 27s
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Keyboard access for CodeLens4m 32s
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Use the Clipboard Ring2m 56s
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Use the GlyphFriend extension5m 41s
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Activate Open File in Solution Explorer3m 14s
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Use the enhanced scrollbar41s
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Drag and drop in Solution Explorer5m 20s
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Keyboard shortcuts for MVC views and controllers4m 17s
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Pin data tips in debug window6m 6s
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The Trailing Whitespace Visualizer extension4m 19s
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Date rounding and other helpers5m 21s
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Memorize window layout (Reuse)4m 26s
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Use DialogResult6m 48s
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Label a breakpoint2m 31s
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The Image Optimizer extension2m 35s
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Use Ctrl+Spacebar to fix case of variable names3m 40s
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Use the nameof operator6m 21s
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Discover untested code with code coverage7m 36s
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Use the Hand tool in XAML designer2m 16s
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Array Visualizer extension2m 35s
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Use Ctrl+Tab to cycle through windows3m 18s
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Understand line stroke patterns4m 37s
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The Comment Remover extension3m 41s
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Toolbox tip shortcuts6m 1s
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Randomize data with LINQ4m 13s
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Customize context menu4m
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Get the file path1m 25s
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Convert lists4m 34s
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Enum flags5m 19s
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Reference highlighting2m 4s
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Evaluate performance with PerfTips4m 50s
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Null propagation4m
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Multiple editor views of same file2m 17s
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Customize the output window7m 37s
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Colored braces with the Viasfora extension4m 15s
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Use the C# interactive window10m 47s
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The Smart Semicolon extension3m 29s
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Reference Highlighting1m 35s
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IEnumerable Extension Methods4m 58s
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Compare LiNQ sequences6m
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The Clear Recent Project List extension3m 34s
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