Visual Studio has many toolbars. The toolbars inside Tool Windows can be access from the keyboard. This video trick will show you how to move focus from the Tool Window, up onto the Toolbar, and select a specif icon.
[SHIFT]+[ALT] = Jump to Toolbar inside a focused Tool window.
[ALT]+[SHIFT] = Does not work, because the first [ALT] activates the Jump Keys (usually menu or links) lookup.
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #007 English Transcription:
Today's VSTricks.com trick no. 7 is a partial video repost from Sara Ford originally published august 2nd 2007. Todays tip is keyboard navigation to toolbars inside of a tool window.
So you may have noticed that inside of Solution Explorer from the keyboard, if you try to do a [TAB] or an [ALT] it brings you somewhere else on the screen. So the trick is to be inside that tool window and then do [SHIFT]+[ALT] and that will then select or highlight your icons to use so lets say for example I want to jump to the output window, [CTRL]+[ALT]+[O], and now I can do [SHIFT]+[ALT] and I can navigate between the icon bars. A side note. [ALT]+[SHIFT] will not work because if [ALT] is found first then it automatically brings you up to select the main menu. So let's do a [CTRL]+[ALT]+[L] which will bring me to Solution Explorer and then [SHIFT]+[ALT] and now I can navigate through the icons.
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