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Activate 'Full Screen Mode' During your Source Code Editing

Okay, I admit this is a rather lame tip which can hardly qualify as 'insightful', however this is one of my favorite features of Visual Studio .NET (as well as previous editions of the Visual Studio product line) which many folks are (surprisingly) unaware of. Under the View menu you will find a menu item named 'Full Screen'. When activated, the only window displayed will be the active document. This is especially helpful for those working on low resolution monitors, given that the size of your code window can shrink dramatically if you have too many windows docked within the IDE. To escape from full screen, just click the Full Screen button floating over your code window.

Tip from Andrew Troelsen
Posted by: Duncan Mackenzie, MSDN
This post applies to Visual C# .NET 2002/2003/2005

Published Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:50 PM by CSharpFAQ
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thomas woelfer said:

Andrew, Duncan,

unfortunately, vs.net will also close toolwindows that are place on secondary displays when entering fullscreen mode.

it really shouldn't do this.

WM_MY0.02$
thomas woelfer

October 21, 2004 2:11 AM
 

Malcolm Anderson said:

You may think it's lame, but it's exactly what I've been needing.

Now if I can just figure out how to get C# to halt on the change of a variable value.
October 21, 2004 9:06 AM
 

Minh T. Nguyen said:

You can have VS.NET break into the debugger when a certain variable (or expression) has changed, by going to Debug/New Breakpoint/Data. There enter your variable name and VS.NET will break when that variable has changed. :)

I have described this tip (as well as the full-screen tip) in my book "Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks". See www.enderminh.com.
October 26, 2004 2:06 PM
 

Nils Thorell said:

You may toggle the FullScreen mode by the shortcut ALT-SHIFT-ENTER.
November 3, 2004 2:00 AM
 

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