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.

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Resizing internal floating windows in Visual Studio? Easy with the mouse right. Just a simple drag-n-drop. But for you keyboard fanatics, did you know you can resize floating windows from using keyboard shortcuts? This one will win bets in a Best of Visual Studio contest.

[ALT], [SPACE] = Context menu for floating window

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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]+[MINUS {-}] = Show Tool Window Move Menu

[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

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Splitting windows/documents in multiple places can make your life much easier when working with a large number of documents. Check out the same document in split view to read the document in more than place (like top and bottom), or setup multiple documents side-by-side.

[MENU] Window|Split

[Footnote] Jan 8th, 8:15pm
Sorry for my voice in today’s screen cast – I’m currently befriending a bottle of Vitamin C to try and keep this sore throat in check. But I’m already behind on my new years resolution. There are over 300 of these tip tricks I need to video this year. It’s Jan. 8th, and I only have 4 videos, down 50% already. 🙂 It’ll be easy to catch up now, I already have the structure in place to pump out these videos.

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Show and Hide White Space in documents.

[CTRL]+[R] + [CTRL]+[W] = Toggle Show|Hide White Space

[Footnote] Jan 8th, 8:15pm
Sorry for my voice in today’s video’s – I’m currently befriending a bottle of Vitamin C to try and keep this sore throat in check. But I’m already behind on my new years resolution. There are over 300 of these tip tricks I need to video this year. It’s Jan. 8th, and I only have 4 videos, down 50% already. 🙂 It’ll be easy to catch up now, I already have the structure in place to pump out these videos.

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