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[MENU] Window|Split

[Footnote] Jan 8th, 8:15pm
Sorry for my voice in todays video's - I'm currently befriending a bottle of Vitamin C to try and keep this sore throat in check. But I'm already behind on my new years resolution. There are over 300 of these tip tricks I need to video this year. It's Jan. 8th, and I only have 4 videos, down 50% already. :) It'll be easy to catch up now, I already have the structure in place to pump out these videos.

Visual Studio Tip / Trick #004 English Transcription:

Hello and thank you for watching VS Tricks.com Trick No. 4. Today’s trick is a video post, originally posted by Sara Ford, on July 31 2007. Today's trick is Window Splitting. There is a couple of things. First you'll see here a keyword here split, that’s actually for splitting ASP.net design view between source and design, so that’s not what we are talking about. But in source editing windows, you can actually from the Window menu, select Split, and now you have a splitter bar here that divides the window in half. That’s still an active document, so as you make changes in one you will see it affect both windows. And then to get rid of that, you simply slide it back to the top or instead of using the Windows Split method, there is actually a slider right here that you can grab a hold of it anytime. And that’s pretty useful for looking at both the top and bottom portions of a document. So that’s splitting a single window. If you notice I have four tabs here. And in Visual Studio, you’ll often be using many documents. What if I want to look at more than one at a time? We can actually drag and drop this tab into the designer and be prompted with a popup menu if you want a horizontal or vertical tab group. So if we select vertical, now we can see those windows side by side. This is the splitter of the first document. And now we can move these tabs back and forth. So if I want documents on individual tab groups I can move a document anywhere I want. If you have a larger monitor, you can actually split this again. So if I take another document and move it to a new vertical tab group, see now we have 3 tab groups. It’s unlimited you can use and move these documents to as many as you want. Now as you get more tab groups, you'll see this down arrow here is the affecting that tab group and this close button is affecting the highlighted document. It doesn't close the entire tab group. So if I close one file, you'll see that file is closed but the other file is still left open. Let me get all these back on one tab group. There's one another thing that is interesting here. So if I bring a tab down, depending on which tab group type you select, you are locked in. So you start with a vertical tab group, you can only add additional vertical tab groups, and vice versa. If you start with a horizontal tab group, you can add only additional horizontal groups. If you are also close with your drag and drop, you can drag a file right to this middle and you'll see that will let it open up its own tab group without having to select from the menu.

Video Repost of: Sara Ford - Tip of the Day #004