Visual Studio: Activate Full Screen Mode during source editing

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There is a common, but great, feature of Visual Studio—and of previous VS editions—of which many developers remain unaware. Under the View menu you will find a menu item named Full Screen. When activated, the active document is the only window displayed. This is very useful for programmers using low resolution monitors; because, the size of the code window shrinks dramatically when too many windows are docked within the IDE. To exit full screen mode, click the Full Screen button floating over the source code window.

Regrettably, Visual Studio.NET also closes tool windows on secondary displays when entering Full Screen mode.

Full Screen mode can be toggled using the ALT-SHIFT-ENTER shortcut.