Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Open recently closed files

 
 
  • Gérald Barré

Accidentally closing a document in Visual Studio is easy to do. Instead of searching for it in Solution Explorer, you can reopen it quickly. Press CTRL+T, R (CTRL+T then R) and select the file to reopen:

Recently closed files in Visual StudioRecently closed files in Visual Studio

Use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate the list, then press Enter to open the selected file.

Visual Studio 2022 introduced a built-in option to reopen the last closed tab:

This post is part of the series 'Visual Studio Tips and Tricks'. Be sure to check out the rest of the blog posts of the series!

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