Visual Studio Ctrl+Tab Difficulties
Now that I’ve actually been using Visual Studio for a lot of development work at home I’ve encountered some annoyances. One of these has been that sometimes when switching between windows using the Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts it gets stuck and refuses to take any more keyboard input until I click on it with the mouse.
A quick glance at the problem reveals that it’s a focus issue with the window that pops up listing the open documents, where if you switch quickly enough it doesn’t get time to properly return focus to the main window.
Luckily there’s a handy solution out there that fixes the problem, you simply swap what the Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+F6 keyboard shortcuts are bound to (but don’t forget the Shift variants).
