Zooming in the visual studio form designer

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dumbledad picture dumbledad · Oct 1, 2013 · Viewed 52.3k times · Source

I'm using the Visual Studio 2013 form designer to edit a form. The size of the form in the designer window is too big so I want to zoom out.

Form in form designer occluded and in need of zooming out

In applications like Photoshop or Blend I could (among other things) use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-0 to fit the design to the screen.

In Visual Studio how do I zoom out in the form design window?

Answer

Richard Banks picture Richard Banks · Oct 4, 2013

The Windows Forms designer doesn't zoom. The WPF one does because it's vector based, but WinForms is pixel based you don't get the zooming.

If you've got multiple monitors you can drag the designer to a second screen and work with it that way, or you can press Alt+Shift+Enter to toggle full screen and work with it that way.

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