Working with Documents in Microsoft Visual Studio
- 8/24/2011
- 04.01 Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs
- 04.02 Recent Files
- 04.03 Working with Documents on Multiple Monitors
- 04.04 Navigate Open Document Windows
- 04.05 Close the Current Document Window
- 04.06 Open a File Location from the File Tab
- 04.07 Open the File Menu Drop-Down List from Your Keyboard
- 04.08 Using the IDE Navigator
- 04.09 Multiple Views of the Same Document
- 04.10 Closing Just the Selected Files You Want
- 04.11 Understanding the File Open Location
- 04.12 Show Previous Versions
- 04.13 Using Custom File Extension Associations
04.07 Open the File Menu Drop-Down List from Your Keyboard
DEFAULT |
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow |
VISUAL BASIC 6 |
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow |
VISUAL C# 2005 |
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow |
VISUAL C++ 2 |
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow |
VISUAL C++ 6 |
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow |
VISUAL STUDIO 6 |
Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow |
WINDOWS |
[no shortcut] |
COMMAND |
Window.ShowEzMDIFileList |
VERSIONS |
2005, 2008, 2010 |
CODE |
vstipEnv0003 |
When you have a lot of files open, it is sometimes easier to view them as a list instead of tabs. The File menu drop-down list does that for you. You can click the drop-down button to the far right on the file tab, or you can simply use Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow to activate it.
An interesting thing about this list is that it has type-ahead functionality. So, in this example, if you type the letter S, it automatically selects SomethingToDo.cs. Hitting S again results in Start Page being selected. If you have a lot of files, you can type more characters to narrow down the selection. For example, typing ST jumps straight to Start Page.