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Visual Studio 2005 Ctrl-Tab

In Visual Studio 2005, try out the Ctrl-Tab functionality.  It is very cool.  Thanks to Jeff Widmer for mentioning it.

Wally

Posted: Nov 04 2004, 08:07 AM by Wallym | with 10 comment(s)
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Ken said:

Could you fill those without VS 2005 in on the feature?

If it is control tabing between VS file tabs like you do through applications my dreams have come true.
# November 4, 2004 8:56 AM

Fabrice said:

Did they finally fix CTRL+TAB?
# November 4, 2004 10:06 AM

Drew Marsh said:

Ken's guess is right. It brings up a window in the middle of the IDE that is much like ALT+TAB for windows. It lists open documents as well as tool windows that are currently open. It cycles only through open documents, but you can also click one of the tool windows listed if you want to go to that (rare for most people I'm sure).
# November 4, 2004 10:32 AM

Andrew said:

How do I stop the window from popping up in the middle of the IDE?

CTRL+TAB seems to take 2 seconds to switch between files which is waaay to long.

# March 18, 2007 11:55 PM

Murty said:

can we implement this in our windows application? if so, then how?

# June 7, 2007 8:49 AM

matt arrington said:

I hate the ctrl+tab menu in vs-8. It makes the screen flicker, and just slows makes tabbing between documents slower. The GUI in visual studio gets slower and clunkier with each new release.

# July 31, 2007 1:51 PM

Lee said:

I'm with you Matt.  Has anyone found a way to disable this popup, and make it work like VS 2003 did?

# October 3, 2007 5:31 PM

Lee said:

After looking around a bit more, I found a solution here:

blogs.msdn.com/.../257962.aspx

It reads:

  1.  Open Tools – Options – Keyboard

  2. Under “Show commands containing:”, type in “Window.NextDocumentWindowNav”

  3. Press the Remove button to remove the “Ctrl+Tab” keyboard shortcut binding

If you want the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Ctrl-Tab behavior, continue with these steps:

  4. Under “Show commands containing”, type in “Window.NextDocumentWindow”

  5. Under Press shortcut keys, press Ctrl+Tab.

  6. Press Assign to bind the keyboard shortcut

  7. Press OK to accept changes and dismiss the tools options dialog

# October 3, 2007 5:41 PM

Cosmin said:

The ctrl+tab windows remains active after releasing the ctrl. I think It's related to sticky keys or something, but I cannot make it work properly, no matter what I do.

Does any one know how to solve this ?

Thanks.

# August 10, 2008 10:22 AM

Sam said:

I have the same problem too. I think it's because of service pack 1. Is there any solution for this ?

# April 10, 2009 10:47 AM
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