Visual Studio 2015 Collapse all shortcut

Question

I have gone thru http://visualstudioshortcuts.com/2015/ this link and Keyboard shortcuts inside Visual Studio to see if I can set up keyboard shortcut for "Collapse All" inside solution explorer so far no luck.

FWIW I don't have access to Resharper and I did use CodeMaid for "Collapse all"

but after installing it every time I try to close my Visual Studio I ended with error (tried suggestions from the Github issue page but didn't work) so had to finally uninstall it

I have also referred many links like below ones but none of them helped.

• Attach a keyboard shortcut to 'Collapse All' items in solution explorer with Visual Studio 2012
• Visual Studio: Is there a way to collapse all items of Solution Explorer?

Answer 1

The command you want to map is SolutionExplorer.CollapseAll. The trick is that it won't work unless the Solution Explorer has focus, so you'll have to first use a keystroke to set focus (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+L) then your secondary keystroke you define. The escape key afterwards will return focus to your previous window (e.g. code editor).

If you're still having any issues with CodeMaid, I would love to work them out with you. The issues previously listed were for VS2013 and were difficult to consistently reproduce.