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

Question

Many times I want to close the left bottom panel which includes build information, etc. by keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio IDE, is it possible? Or can I customize Visual Studio to support this?

Answer 1

I am assuming you talk about the Output window? The Keyboard Shortcut to show the Output window is CTRL+W, O (so first press and hold CTRL and W, while holding tap O) - also CTRL+ALT+O works.

Now you can exit the window with Shift+ESC. I don't know any way to exit the output window directly.

Some more shortcuts:

• CTRL+W, O Output window
• CTRL+W, P Properties window
• CTRL+W, T Task list window
• CTRL+W, X Toolbox window

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

Answer 2

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

To see the hotkeys that activate different tool-windows, look at the View menu.