Visual Studio Full Screen For Presentations

Published: 5/21/2009 | Updated: 5/21/2009 | Discuss

Visual Studio has one very obvious but little–used feature which helps presentations go much smoother: the full screen view.

Most of the time I see presenters struggle with the Solution Explorer sidebar, dragging it back and forth, back and forth, to get it out of the way. A painful exercise for the presenter and the attendees.

Pssst… Hit Shift+Alt+Enter.

Visual Studio full view

Comments

1 Peter | Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:47 AM

Typical MS, every other application is F11 but of course that is reserved for stepping in the debugger....

2 Milan Negovan | Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM

I agree. F11 would be helpful. Pressing three keys so far from each other is a hassle. Poor usability.

3 laslo | Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 2:15 AM

I have been using Visual Studio for years, but have never used this feature. Thank you for the hint.

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