Moving focus to next tab group in Visual Studio 2008/Visual Studio 2010 via the keyboard?

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Is it possible to move to the next vertical tab group in Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 by using the keyboard?

There are commands for moving the active window to the next or previous tab group, but I couldn't find one for moving the focus from one tab group to the next.

The only workaround that I found is by using DPack's File Browser dialog, but it requires a lot of keystrokes and they depend on the name of file in the currently active windows in the tab groups.

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '12 at 16:51

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If you are using Visual Studio 2012, TabGroupJumper provides commands to move to the next/previous tab group in any direction.

answered Dec 14 '12 at 16:51

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Just commenting to say that it has been updated to work with VS 2013 (and hopefully all coming MSVC versions). Although this does require compiling it yourself. – Magnus Österlind Jan 23 '15 at 17:24

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '12 at 11:52

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The VSStreamliner extension adds keybindings for this exact functionality. It's working great for me in VS2010.

answered Jul 10 '12 at 11:52

Mark Schabacker

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I hacked VSStreamliner to work with VS2015 by using the same method described [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/14087731/1783777), setting version number to 14.0. – dinosaur Aug 12 '16 at 18:11

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 15 '11 at 10:10

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It should be F6, but it doesn't work for me.

Ctrl + F6 cycles through all open documents, but that isn't exactly what you want.

edited Sep 15 '11 at 10:10

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answered Jul 12 '11 at 20:01

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F6 is moving the cursor between split parts of an editor window. – IvanH Aug 18 '14 at 12:33

Moving focus to next tab group in Visual Studio 2008/Visual Studio 2010 via the keyboard?

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