Cardinal Navigation - A Visual Studio Extension

A better way to change your active window from the keyboard.

Download this extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace. See the changelog for release notes.

Inspired by bspwm.

Features

Adds four new commands to Visual Studio, each representing navigation in a cardinal direction:

• Window: Navigate Left - Select the tool or document window to the left of the active window.
• Window: Navigate Right - Select the tool or document window to the right of the active window.
• Window: Navigate Up - Select the tool or document window above the active window.
• Window: Navigate Down - Select the tool or document window below the active window.

In cases where multiple windows are eligible in a given direction, the window with the largest border or will be selected.

The commands work both in the main Visual Studio instance and in floating windows.

Usage

You can choose new shortcuts for the commands under Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard.

Contributing

Pull requests welcome. When opening issues, please include a stack trace if possible and a screenshot of your window configuration.