Collapse all Visual Studio toolbox regions shortcut

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Is there a keyboard shortcut or macro to collapse all regions in Visual Studio's toolbox? (Failing either of those, I'll take an addin that allows this!)

score 65 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 16 '19 at 20:01

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While the focus is on the toolbox, press / to Collapse All.

You can also Expand All by pressing SHIFT+8

Here's an article by Sarah Ford with more information: Visual Studio Tip #186

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edited Mar 16 '19 at 20:01

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answered May 15 '09 at 04:18

Jose Basilio

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Funny how they didn't add that to the context menu of the panel – Adam Caviness Jan 26 '12 at 15:29
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Checking in almost 5 years later to say thanks :) So silly that there isn't just a button or context menu to do this... What an arbitrary shortcut. Works in VS2010 – sab669 Mar 27 '14 at 18:44
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+1 Wow, that's it! Super time saver. We have over 30 of those and they always expand by default. Until 5 minutes ago, I was collapsing each of them manually. Thanks! – haku Feb 06 '15 at 18:55
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Got tired of collapsing them all manually and did a search to see if there was a shortcut. Much appreciated, thanks so much! – CaptainStealthy Feb 20 '15 at 17:51
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we are in 2015 and the question is still relevant, how sad for MS. – Tech Wizard Mar 17 '15 at 11:35
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+1 - Finally found it! Thanks, "/" worked for me in VS 2013. "Shift + 8" doesn't work but "*" works for "Expand All". – Furkan Ekinci Jun 16 '16 at 06:19
Your jpg links appear to be broken. Looks like MS removed them. – Tony L. Oct 13 '16 at 18:03
This is true in VS 2017 AND there's still no obvious way if you don't know or hunt for this answer LOL. – Richard Griffiths Jun 02 '17 at 12:15
Still needed to look this up in 2022, thank you. – Daniel Miradakis Apr 19 '22 at 14:25

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 10 '11 at 10:10

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Shift + Alt + Enter is your friend.

Also see Window>Auto Hide All

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Thanks for the answer, but that gives full screen mode on my rig (VS2008) - I'm after a region collapse in the toolbox. – Sean Kearon May 10 '09 at 17:38
Ah, I see what you mean. I did some legwork and couldn't find anything. :\ Good luck. – Daniel May 10 '09 at 18:43
Yeah, I couldn't see anything out there either. Thanks for trying! – Sean Kearon May 11 '09 at 05:59

Collapse all Visual Studio toolbox regions shortcut

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