Did you know... Press Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow to drop down the File Tab Channel File Menu - #123
A fellow program manager and I were trying to out "did you know..." each other about Visual Studio the other day (being Sept 20) in my office. I won with this one.
On the File Tab Channel, all the way to the right-hand side, there's an inverted triangle that when pressed invokes the File Menu drop down.
There are two did you know... points here:
- You can press Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow to show the File Menu drop down. This keyboard shortcut is bound to the global scope (meaning you can press this chord anywhere in the IDE and get the File Menu drop down to appear). I believe this is consistent throughout all of the default settings, but if your keyboard mileage varies, the command is Window.ShowEzMDIFileList (in case you are curious, the "EzMDI" stands for Easy MDI, representing the default Tabbed Document view versus the Multiple Documents view, namely MDI (or Multiple Document Interface).
- File Menu drop down supports type-ahead scrolling. If you have a lot of files listed, you can type the name of the file, and when there's an exact match (meaning there isn't a conflict, just like the type-ahead in statement completion), the focus will jump to that exact file, allowing you to hit enter to switch to.
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