Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.
#42 Navigate to off screen tabs in Visual Studio
Tuesday, February 10 2009
To many files open. [ALT]+[TAB] works, but here is an alternative. I use this quite often, but there is a little tiny glyph update that I didn't notice before. Acutally I have noticed it, I just didn't register the fact that it changed once in a while. Now I know why. Do you?
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #042 English Transcription:
Today’s Visual Studio video trick, trick No. 42 is a video repost from Sara Ford’s original blog post. Trick No. 42 and the question comes from this little icon here which is a drop down list.
It lets you quickly navigate to more then one file so; I am sorry to one of the tabs you have open. Now I’ve got 4 tabs here and all 4 of them are in this drop down list. So it does not necessarily make sense to navigate because you can just click on the actual file name. But the trick is actually watching this icon change, so I open up bunch of files. As soon as I have more files open then can be displayed on the screen, this icon will change with an over line if you will. And that kind of lets you know visually that there is more options in the drop down list then that can be displayed in tabs on the screen. So as I close those, as soon as all tabs are visible that little icon changes. That will also be true if you have more space that’s made available on the screen, so as I close my solution explorer you will see that icon changes so basically if there are tabs not visible on the screen that icon will change and that’s confirmed to work both in 2005 as well as Visual Studio 2008.
Have a great day. :-)
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