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Did you know... Visual Studio has a full screen mode? - #011

Visual Studio has four window layouts:

  1. Design view – what you see when you launch Visual Studio
  2. Full screen – View - Full Screen
  3. Debugging view – when debugging
  4. File view – when you run “devenv.exe foo.txt”

Visual Studio in Full Screen View

But today's tip focuses on Full Screen.  You can quickly toggle into Full Screen, from any of the other 3 window layouts, by pressing Shift + Alt + Enter. 

Any window customizations you make in Full Screen mode will persist across different window layouts (meaning when you switch to design and go back to full screen, you'll see the tool windows where you last had them in full screen) and across different VS instances (close / reopen IDE).

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Posted: Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:00 AM by saraford

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# August 9, 2007 1:57 PM

Jason Haley said:

# August 10, 2007 10:19 AM

Peter Ritchie said:

Ahh full-screen mode.  Always fun to accidentally press Shift+Alt+Enter and accidentally kick it into Full Screen mode.  Freaks me out every time.

# August 10, 2007 3:30 PM

saraford said:

Hey Peter, your comment reminds me of the first time we saw the IDE Navigator in a bug triage.  During one of the very early builds of VS 2005, we accidentally hit ctrl+tab and this thing pops up and quickly goes away.  Took us a few minutes to figure out what keyboard shortcut we had pressed.  =)  Nothing like new functionality in new build drops to keep you on your toes!

# August 13, 2007 10:49 AM

Visual Studio 2008 ワンポイント said:

Visual Studio には、次の 4 つのウィンドウ レイアウトがあります。 デザイン ビュー : Visual Studio を起動したときの表示 全画面表示 : [表示] メニューの [全画面表示]

# July 13, 2008 11:52 PM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Visual Studio имеет четыре схемы использования: Дизайнер - то, что вы видите, когда запускаете Visual

# July 16, 2008 6:47 AM

xjb said:

本篇包括tip10-tip20

http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-2.html

#011、全屏...

# December 2, 2008 9:41 PM

Benson-希 said:

#011、全屏模式

原文地址：http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/08/09/did-you-know-visual-studio-has-a-...

# December 9, 2008 3:45 AM

Korea Evangelists said:

개발자에게는 넓은 화면이 좋습니다. 큰 모니터 2개를 이용해 자유롭게 보면 좋지만, 그렇지 못하고 프로그램 창만 크게 하고 싶다면 전체 화면 기능을 생각해 볼 수 있습니다. SHIFT+ALT+ENTER

# April 3, 2009 12:22 AM
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