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Is there an easy way to maximize and minimize/restore an editor in Visual Studio ?

To demonstrate, I'm looking for what Eclipse has:

Normal Layout:

Eclipse Standard

Hit a key combo and you get this (This seems somewhat like Windows->AutoHide all in VS2010)

Maximized Editor Eclipse Maximized Editor

Now, another key combo , and you get back to the Normal Layout. That's the important thing(Windows->AutoHide all in Visual Studio just leaves windows around, not allowing you to quickly switch back and forth.)

Is there anything like this in VS2010 ?

+2  A: 

Alt-Shift-Enter makes the editor full screen and enlarges it. Is this what you wanted?

Michael Goldshteyn
+2  A: 

View/FullScreen (Shift+Alt+Enter here) will make the editor window use the whole screen. That might be a bit more than what you asked for, but then the same keyboard shortcut will reverse this again, so it's quite easy.

sbi
I'd prefer it not to go actually fullscreen, hiding the taskbar too - but that'll do
Anonym
@Anonym: Just don't put your IDE on the monitor where the taskbar is, then. `:)`
sbi