No doubt you’ve seen how Visual Studio can dock tool windows in al kids of cool patterns, floating, docked, tabbed, etc. Did you know you can grab and move these tool windows with the keyboard?
[ALT]+[F6] = Toggle Forward through all open Tool Windows
[CTRL]+[PgDn] = Move Right through tab groups in Tool Window
[CTRL]+[PgUp] = Move Left through tab groups in Tool Window
[SHIFT]+[F6] = Toggle Backwards through all open Tool Windows
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #005 English Transcription:
Today's VSTrick.com Trick No. 5 is a video repost from Sara Ford, originally published August 1, 2007.
Today's tip is moving Tool windows in Visual Studio with the keyboard when a mouse might not be available. So if you are on the Error List and then press [ALT] + [-], you'll see a move menu. I can go down and [Enter]. And now as I move my arrow keys, you'll see that I can select where this window will be dropped. Now the obvious question, if you don't have a mouse is how to select that window. If you press [ALT] + [F6], you can navigate between the panes in your Visual Studio. And once you have one of those panes selected, you can then do [ALT] + [-] and select the move. Also once you are on that pane, you can do a [CTRL] + [PgDn] to navigate between the options. So [CTRL] + [PgDn] and then [PgUp], you can say switch between the output and results, Find Results window. Also the [ALT] + [-] move trick only seems to work if the pane is docked. So if I use my [ALT] + [F6] trick to get to a pane, the Find Results, which is not docked. If I do a [ALT] + [-] here, nothing happens. So you have to be on a pane that is currently docked. Also, just so you know, [ALT] + [SHIFT] + [F6] will go backwards between the panes that you have opened.
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