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Did you know... Press Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow to drop down the File Tab Channel File Menu - #123

  • Artigo

A fellow program manager and I were trying to out "did you know…" each other about Visual Studio the other day (being Sept 20) in my office.  I won with this one.

File Tab Channel File Menu

On the File Tab Channel, all the way to the right-hand side, there’s an inverted triangle that when pressed invokes the File Menu drop down. 

There are two did you know… points here:

  • You can press Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow to show the File Menu drop down.  This keyboard shortcut is bound to the global scope (meaning you can press this chord anywhere in the IDE and get the File Menu drop down to appear).  I believe this is consistent throughout all of the default settings, but if your keyboard mileage varies, the command is Window.ShowEzMDIFileList  (in case you are curious, the "EzMDI" stands for Easy MDI, representing the default Tabbed Document view versus the Multiple Documents view, namely MDI (or Multiple Document Interface).
  • File Menu drop down supports type-ahead scrolling.   If you have a lot of files listed, you can type the name of the file, and when there’s an exact match (meaning there isn’t a conflict, just like the type-ahead in statement completion), the focus will jump to that exact file, allowing you to hit enter to switch to.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 06, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
    Thank you for your tips. This one had a rather interesting side effect on my computer. The driver for my graphics card (some kinda Intel on-board thing) had the same shortcut linked to "rotate screen 180 degrees". Imagine my surprise :-) Anyways, keep up the good work!

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
    Alex:  lol, that's a good one.  I've had similar experiences with keyboard shortcuts doing unexpected things, especially when running Assistive Technology software (like screen readers, screen magnifiers, etc.)  but rotating the screen is a new one.  =)

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
    While I love the Ctrl+Tab shortcut (I used it a lot in other IDE's, NetBeans is one example) the Ctrl+Alt+Down is another story. While playing with CompizFusion cube and expo effects in GNOME (yes, in the L system) I set the Ctrl+Alt+Down to show all virtual desktops. And here, in Visual Studio it shows all open files. Imagine my joy :) And thanks for a good tip!

  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2008
    I tried it and received the same results as Alex. The screen goes black for a moment then returns with the page rotated 180 degrees. Upside down!

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2008
    本篇包括tip121-tip130http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-13.html

  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2009
    В правой части зоны закладок находится перевернутый треугольник, который открывает меню управления закладками