I want to change the default keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Enter) for the Browser Link feature in Visual Studio 2013 to another key, but i can't find any options in the keyboard list.
if at all possible, how can i change it?
There is a user voice for this feature:
Make shortcut for "Refresh Linked Browsers" changeable
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In VB6 you can easily go to next procedure by pressing CTRL+Page Down and also previous procedure by pressing CTRL+Page Up.
However I can't find any way to do that using Visual Studio 2010 programming VB.NET; I want to scroll down or up to go to the previous or next procedure using a keyboard shortcut.
Yes, keybindings do exist and you're in luck; the keybindings below relate to Visual Studio 2010's Visual Basic.
It's come to my attention that these default keybindings aren't available in some installations of Visual Studio. If this is the case for you then proceed with the key-binding instructions below this section.
Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010
Next Method or Type: CTRL + ↓ or CTRL + PAGE DOWN
Previous Method or Type: CTRL + ↑ or CTRL + PAGE UP
All keybindings for Visual Studio 2010's Visual Basic can be found here, and more keybindings for other programming languages in Visual Studio can be found here
Same keybindings for other versions:
Visual Studio 2012, 2013, and 2015 (and any other version without the default keybindings)
Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015 Does not appear to have any Edit.NextMethod or Edit.PreviousMethod keybindings and the same behaviour can be observed for some installations of other Visual Studio versions, instead you'll have to assign your own:
TOOLS >> OPTIONS >> ENVIRONMENT >> KEYBOARD >> Select Visual Basic 6 from the Apply the following keyboard mapping scheme dropdown:
Find Edit.NextMethod and Edit.PreviousMethod in the Commands box:
Click within the Press Shortcut Keys box and press the shortcut keys you want to assign on the keyboard. In this case, let's copy the shortcut keys from Visual Studio 2010:
Once you've done that, click Assign and then do the same for the other command; the shortcut keys will now work
The Default key-binding is slightly misleading; it only applies if you open a file with Visual Studio that is not supported by the IDE, therefore you should be careful that you do not add a keybinding under this.
I somehow managed to close the visual design tab of my project where you drag component from the toolbox to. I've tried every view I can think of. I'm using Visual Studio 2013 if anyone can tell me how to re-open the design view(not the code) that'd be great as I don't know my way around every aspect of visual studio.
When you right-click the "FormName.vb" file in Solution Explorer, you can click "View Designer." Alternatively, you can click "Open With..." and choose Visual Basic Form Editor from the list.
Try using XXX.Designer.cs from your Solution Explorer
hope it'll help
I would be delighted, elated even, if someone could tell me how to close every tool window in Visual Studio 2013 in an automatable fasion. Solution Explorer, Output Window, and Toolbox are all examples of the countless tool windows that can accumulate on my screen. I'm using Autohotkey to try to close them, but it has become impossible to do through blind keyboard shortcuts (AFIK.)
I'm not opposed to a plugin but something with just the keyboard would be ideal.
Thanks so much!
If you want to do it with Autohotkey, take a look at WinClose as MCL suggested. You might also need SetTitleMatchMode.
I'm still using Visual Studio 2010, but with some minor adjustments it should also work in Visual Studio 2012:
SetTitleMatchMode, 2 ;No need to enter the full title
Enter:: ;press enter to close all tool windows
WinClose, Microsoft Visual, Find and Replace
WinClose, Microsoft Visual, Solution Explorer
WinClose, Microsoft Visual, Class View
WinClose, Microsoft Visual, Property Manager
;...
Sleep, 1000
Return
Esc:: ;Use Esc to exit the script
ExitApp
Use "AU3_Spy.exe" form your Autohotkey folder to find the WinTitle(part) and some visible text.
Layouts-O-Rama is my take on the problem. To be found in the vs gallery here:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/35966ad9-430f-4ad7-9186-4394b784e36c
Basically the addin saves tool window layouts. You could simply save a layout with all tool windows closed and assign a hotkey to it. To go even further you could save another layout with all the tool windows you like opened and assign a different hotkey to this.
Like I said in the title of this question, is it possible to attach a keyboard shortcut to collapse all items in the solution explorer with Visual Studio 2012?
In previous version; 2010, I was able to create a macro to enable this feature but in Visual Studio 2012, there is no more support for macros.
I'm able to right click onto item in the solution explorer and choose 'Collapse All' but I prefer to just typed 'Ctrl+Shift+C' to do the same job.
FWIW, this is the best I've been able to come up with so far.
Alternative 1
Press Ctrl+¨ to put focus in the search box above the Solution Explorer.
Press Shift+Tab to move focus to the toolbar.
Use the left arrow to move focus to the left, until you hit the Collapse All button (four times. YMMV).
Alternative 2
Press Ctrl+Alt+l (or whatever your personal shortcut is) to focus the Solution Explorer.
Press Shift+Alt to focus the Solution Explorer toolbar. This puts the focus on the Home button on the toolbar.
Use the right arrow to move focus to the right, until you hit the Collapse All button (three times).
Press Enter.
Alternative 3
Press Ctrl+Alt+l (or whatever your personal shortcut is) to focus the Solution Explorer.
Press and hold the left arrow until you've reached the top node (the Solution node).
Press the up arrow to put focus in the search box above the Solution Explorer.
Press Shift+Tab to move focus to the toolbar.
Use the left arrow to move focus to the left, until you hit the Collapse All button (two times. YMMV).
As you can see in the screenshot below, there is an option called Collapse All and a shortcut key next to it.
Now this shortcut key will not work for you !
Unless ofcourse, you set it up using Tools > Options > Keyboard. The command name is CollapseInSolutionExplorerAction. Search using this command name and assign a shortcut key of your choice.
That's it and you are ready to use your shortcut key !
Source
Visual Studio 2012 / ReSharper 8.0.1:
The command is 'ProjectAndSolutionContextMenus.Project.ReSharper_CollapseInSolutionExplorer'.
I suggest you to try CodeMaid extension for Visual Studio. It provides a command "Collapse All Projects Recursively" that has customizable shortcut (by default, it is Ctrl+M,-). It has some other nice abilities, like switching between .cpp and its .h files, joining lines, etc.
I have searched on the net a way to do this when I have first install VS2012 ..
I have just found the solution, so I share it :)
you can do this by adding your visual studio version to an existing Extension ...
Download the extension for VS 10
Change the extension from vsix to zip
extract it and open the file extension.vsixmanifest
Find this xml section : SupportedProducts
Add this :
<VisualStudio Version="11.0">
<Edition>Ultimate</Edition>
<Edition>Premium</Edition>
<Edition>Pro</Edition>
</VisualStudio>
you can also try version 12 for visual studio 2013 ...
zip it, and change the extension from zip to vsix.
Now you can Install it.
after install it, Goto Tools -> Customise and click on the keyboard button.
Search "CrossProjectMultiProject.CollapseProjects" and assing the shortcut you like.
Have a nice codding.
Please +1 if this help you
ps. sorry for my bad English, im French ;-)
When editing C# code in Visual Studio 2010, the ENTER key makes IntelliSense complete the current suggestion, without adding a new line.
In VB.NET, the default IntelliSense behavior for the ENTER key is to add a new line after completing the current suggestion.
How can I configure IntelliSense to change the VB.NET behavior to the C# one?
I already know that I could press TAB or SPACE, but out of habit I always end up hitting ENTER (and changing line).
UPDATE VISUAL STUDIO 2017:
Now with Visual Studio 2017 you can change it. Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Basic -> IntelliSense.
In Enter key behavior select Never add new line on enter
ANSWER FOR VISUAL STUDIO 2015 AND PREVIOUS:
If you want to avoid inserting new line on enter with autocomplete suggestion, just don't press enter. Instead of Enter press Space bar which completes your autofill and just inserts a space.
Or you may use this third party app:
Resharper makes it possible overriding Visual Studio intellisense and using its own intellisense. It is the only way I've found.
It has a 30 days free trial if you want to test it.
Unfortunately the set of trigger keys for intellisense completion is not a configurable item for VB.Net. There is no way in the default Visual Studio environment to change this behavior.
It would be possible to develop a plugin of sorts to accomplish this. However that's a pretty extreme measure.
EDIT
As of Visual Studio 2017, it is now possible to change this. See the answer below