Visual Studio Floating Windows and Keyboard Shortcuts

Friday, July 4, 2008

VS.NET

Update: Mark Capaldi has revealed a great VS.NET shortcut that does the work (Shift-ESC).

Visual Studio floating windows are not playing nicely with keyboard shortcuts. If you only using a keyboard, and want to be able to navigate around without constantly getting destructed by a mice, it's ok. But floating windows are impossible to close without touching a mouse. At least I am not familiar with a way to do it. Imagine you could do something like this - press ALT-Space on floating window and... close!

Wouldn't it be nice? :)

2 Comments

You can use Shift-Esc to close a tool window. It's a VS binding rather than a R# feature so it should just work out of the box.

Mark Capaldi - Friday, July 4, 2008 2:04:56 AM

@Mark
I love you man! You've made my day.

Sean Feldman - Friday, July 4, 2008 7:29:47 AM

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