Is it possible to close the bottom left panel using a keyboard shortcut in the Visual Studio IDE?

Question

Many times I want to close the bottom left panel, which includes assembly information, etc. using keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio IDE, is this possible? Or can I configure Visual Studio to support this?

Answer 1

I assume you are talking about an output window? Keyboard shortcut to display the output window CTRL + W , O (so first press and hold CTRL and W while holding the O button down) - also CTRL + ALT + O works.

Now you can exit the window using Shift + ESC . I do not know how to exit the exit window directly.

A few more shortcuts:

• CTRL + W , O Output Window
• CTRL + W , P Properties Window
• CTRL + W , T Task List Window
• CTRL + W , X Toolbar Window

etc .. for a complete list check out this MSDN article on VS2010 default keyboard shortcuts .

Answer 2

Press the hotkey that activates the tool window (for example, Ctrl + W , O for the output window), then press Shift + Esc .

To see keyboard shortcuts that activate various tool windows, view the View menu.

Answer 3

You need to do two things:

• Go to "Tools" → "Options" → "Environment" → "General" and uncheck the "Close" button for the active tool window only.

• Now go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard and attach a shortcut to the Window.Hide command (I bound mine to CTRL + ALT + ESC when testing, but it's a little cumbersome).

What is it. Now that you are any tool window and press the shortcut key for Window.Hide, it will close all the windows in this group of tabs.

WARNING: Like everything else, it's good and bad. Now that the Close button only affects the active toolbox window, it closes all tool windows that are grouped regardless of where you are, so keep in mind how you group tool windows.

Answer 4

Also, if you want to close the active "panel" or "window" as output, just press shift + esc