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Did you know… How to use Full Screen Mode? (Shift+Alt+Enter)

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Giving a presentation? Want to focus just on the editor (and any interesting tools windows) without modifying your basic (design) view of Visual Studio? Press Shift+Alt+Enter (or View – Full Screen) to enter full screen mode.

Whatever happens in Full Screen Mode stays in Full Screen Mode. Besides being a bad pun on the Las Vegas ads, whatever modifications you make in Full Screen Mode will not affect the design mode or any other mode.

There are four window layout modes in Visual Studio: Design, Debugging / Running, Full Screen, and single file. The single file is when you run devenv <filename> from the command line. Making a customization in on of these will persist only in that mode and not affect any other.

Happy Editing!

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  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2005
    Hmm, Sara question about this.

    I use multiple monitors. However, they are not split into multiple monitors like with multiple start bars. This is a limitation of my Video card before you ask. So when I go full screen in VS using this method it also maximizes VS which then in turn stretches across all my screens. There there a way to go full screen in the text editor without it maximizing?
  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
    Hi Sara,

    Is it possible have the debug window layout automaticly start up in when running in fullscreen mode?
  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
    Wouldn't it be wonderful if VS handled multiple monitors and full screen actually meant full screen and not just 1 screen.
  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2006
    Hi Friends,

    i was more over looking for making a full screen application in vb.net if anyone can help please email me on :

    adeel@megawisdom.net

    Thank You