Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:56 PM szurgot

MS Developer Tool Consistency

A while back I wished for keyboard consistency across Microsoft products, (especially keystrokes like Ctrl-I for iterative search in VS.NET) Today, my wish is for a tabbed interface in Query Analyzer. Trying to work on several stored procedures at once, along with a testing window or two, makes it hard to find the right window.

Cool tip, for the time being. Ctrl-W brings up a list of active windows in Query Analyzer along with filename, user and database. Cool. Now, VS.NET needs this one.

Comments

# re: MS Developer Tool Consistency

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:13 PM by Shannon J Hager

Keep in mind, Query Analyzer is pretty old at this point. Tabbed Browsing wasn't really thought of back in 1999/2000.

Have you seen any screenshots of Yukon's Workbench?

# re: MS Developer Tool Consistency

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:55 PM by Chris Szurgot

I know, it's just a wish.

No, I haven't seen Yukon's Workbench. I assume it has tabbed browsing?

# RE: MS Developer Tool Consistency

Friday, February 13, 2004 3:52 AM by Roy Osherove

Open vs.net tools-optios-keyboard
Find the command Window.Windows and set a shortcut for ALT-W or whatever.
There you go - a list of windows.
Don't feel like creating a shortcut? just use ALT-W and then W again to see the same list.