Reopen last closed tab in Visual Studio

Question

Is there any way to reopen the last closed tab in Visual Studio? Similar to Ctrl+Shift+t in FireFox and Chrome?

Answer 1

in VS 2010 "PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010"

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e5f41ad9-4edc-4912-bca3-91147db95b99/

Adds a command "Undo Close"

Answer 2

If you're using VS 2008, PowerCommands offers a "Undo Close" pane, featuring your recently closed documents, or like David said, check the File menu. PowerCommands doesn't limit the number of files it shows, though.

Answer 3

You can actually do this (at least in Visual Studio 2019) by pressing Ctrl+T,R which opens a little window which shows the last opened windows.

Source

Answer 4

This is not exactly an equivalent, but it can be helpful, so I would mention it.

There is a much simpler way actually, which is to navigate backward (Ctrl+-). Even if the file is closed, VS opens up the file in a new tab. Of course this is useful only in opening the closed tab immediately after you have closed the tab (ie, if you haven't navigated anywhere else much).

Answer 5

Also consider Alt+F, F or Alt+F, Alt+F.

(push Alt and hold it, now while holding it press F and then one more time F).

This will open the recent files menu, which you can then use the arrows to select one and open it by hitting Enter.

Answer 6

In Visual Studio 2020 you can use Shift+Ctrl+T, which is associated with Reopen Closed Editor. This should do what you're expecting.