Thursday, 17 December 2009

Quick Fire Tab-Orders in Winforms

Todays productivity tip for Winforms developers. This may work in other UI technologies, but I haven't checked. Here's the 10 second way of resetting the tab order on your control without resorting to manually changing the property on every control.

1. Open your form/control in the Visual Studio designer
2. Go to View->Tab Order
3. The current tab orders are now highlighted for each control.
4. Proceed to click on each control in the order you want them to tab.
5. Done.

If only I could roll back a decade knowing this, I wouldn't drink as much as I do today!!

There's now no excuse for poor tab orders, no matter how tight the schedule.

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