How can I switch to a different tab group using the keyboard in visual studio 2013

For Visual Studio 2017/2019, I created an open-source extension to do this:

It by default adds two keyboard shortcuts:

  • Tools.NavigateTabGroups.Next (CTRL+SHIFT+Right) to move to the next tab group
  • Tools.NavigateTabGroups.Previous (CTRL+SHIFT+Left) to move to the previous group

There are six commands altogether (all of which can be assigned shortcuts):

image showing all six commands from the tools menu


This is possible using the VSStreamliner extension. Only caveat is that the lastet version I know of is for VS2010. Fortunately, there's a hack-around -- I have gotten it to work with VS2015.

  1. Download VSStreamliner.

  2. Edit the extension's version to match your version of Visual Studio, as described here.

  3. Install the version-hacked extension. This provides commands Window.NextDocumentUp, Window.NextDocumentDown, Window.NextDocumentLeft and Window.NextDocumentRight.

  4. In VS, go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard, and set your desired keybindings to those commands. [Emacs users: For some reason "C-x o" didn't work. (Maybe VS doesn't like two-stroke bindings?), so I used "M-o" and "M-p" for NextDocumentDown and NextDocumentUp respectively.]