Visual Studio Expand Collapse keyboard shortcuts

Question

In Visual Studio  if I have a code file open  I can press CTRL   M or CTRL   M   O to collapse all code blocks  regions  namespaces  etc   How to I do the opposite and expand everything   I have Googled this  but cannot seem to find a shortcut that works

User · Answer

You can use Ctrl   M and Ctrl   P  It s called Edit StopOutlining

User · Answer

Collapse to definitions  CTRL   M  O  Expand all outlining  CTRL   M  X  Expand or collapse everything  CTRL   M  L  This also works with other languages like TypeScript and JavaScript

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I have always wanted Visual Studio to include an option to just collapse   expand the regions  I have the following macros which will do just that      Imports EnvDTE Imports System Diagnostics   Macros for improving keyboard support for   region      endregion  Public Module CollapseExpandRegions   Expands all regions in the current document   Sub ExpandAllRegions        Dim objSelection As TextSelection   Our selection object      DTE SuppressUI   True   Disable UI while we do this     objSelection   DTE ActiveDocument Selection     Hook up to the ActiveDocument s selection     objSelection StartOfDocument     Shoot to the start of the document        Loop through the document finding all instances of  region  This action has the side benefit       of actually zooming us to the text in question when it is found and ALSO expanding it since it       is an outline      Do While objSelection FindText   region   vsFindOptions vsFindOptionsMatchInHiddenText            This next command would be what we would normally do  IF  the find operation didn t do it for us           DTE ExecuteCommand  Edit ToggleOutliningExpansion       Loop     objSelection StartOfDocument     Shoot us back to the start of the document     DTE SuppressUI   False   Reenable the UI      objSelection   Nothing   Release our object    End Sub      Collapses all regions in the current document   Sub CollapseAllRegions       Dim objSelection As TextSelection   Our selection object      ExpandAllRegions     Force the expansion of all regions      DTE SuppressUI   True   Disable UI while we do this     objSelection   DTE ActiveDocument Selection     Hook up to the ActiveDocument s selection     objSelection EndOfDocument     Shoot to the end of the document        Find the first occurence of  region from the end of the document to the start of the document  Note        Note  Once a  region is  collapsed   FindText only sees it s  textual descriptor  unless       vsFindOptions vsFindOptionsMatchInHiddenText is specified  So when a  region  My Class  is collapsed         FindText would subsequently see the text  My Class  instead of   region  My Class   for the subsequent       passes and skip any regions already collapsed      Do While  objSelection FindText   region   vsFindOptions vsFindOptionsBackwards           DTE ExecuteCommand  Edit ToggleOutliningExpansion     Collapse this  region          objSelection EndOfDocument     Shoot back to the end of the document for           another pass      Loop     objSelection StartOfDocument     All done  head back to the start of the doc     DTE SuppressUI   False   Reenable the UI      objSelection   Nothing   Release our object    End Sub End Module   EDIT  There is now a shortcut called Edit ToggleOutliningExpansion  Ctrl M  Ctrl M  for doing just that

User · Answer

Go to Tools- Options- Text Editor- c - Advanced and uncheck the first checkbox Enter outlining mode when files open   This will solve this problem forever

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Visual Studio 2015   Tools  gt  Options  gt  Settings  gt  Environment  gt  Keyboard   Defaults   Edit CollapsetoDefinitions  CTRL   M   O  Edit CollapseCurrentRegion  CTRL   M  CTRL   S  Edit ExpandAllOutlining  CTRL   M   CTRL   X  Edit ExpandCurrentRegion  CTRL   M   CTRL   E  I like to set and use IntelliJ s shortcuts   Edit CollapsetoDefinitions  CTRL   SHIFT   NUM-  Edit CollapseCurrentRegion  CTRL   NUM-  Edit ExpandAllOutlining  CTRL   SHIFT   NUM   Edit ExpandCurrentRegion  CTRL   NUM

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For collapse  you can try CTRL   M   O and expand using CTRL   M   P  This works in VS2008

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As you can see  there are several ways to achieve this   I personally use   Expand all  CTRL   M   L  Collapse all  CTRL   M   O  Bonus   Expand Collapse on cursor location  CTRL   M   M

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