Space management in Visual Studio is important. Especially if you have Studio running on a projector, small monitory, or are using the split screen options extensively.
Visual Studio has a couple of running modes, and each of these modes has it’s own memory. So when you’re in Full Screen, Debug, or Normal mode, Visual Studio will remember your window/panel/toolbar locations for that specific session.
I like to run my Solution Explorer on the left in regular and full screen mode, but on the right in while in debug view. This is a huge reminder to me that I’m running in debug mode.
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #011 English Transcription:
Today's Visual Studio Trick is a video re-post from Sara Ford's original tip of the day, posted August 9, 2007.
Trick No. 11 is a great trick, especially if you have Visual Studio running on a smaller monitor, or smaller resolution. Maybe on a projector. So you can see the file that we have opened here doesn't have very much space to be visualized because of the way we have our tool windows outlined.
Now we could actually draw these back and get a little bit more space or we can use full screen view. So from the view menu, there's a full screen mode, keyboard shortcut is [Shift]+[ALT]+[Enter], and that will, by default, remove all of the tool windows for you. There's also a button here that we can click then to get out of full screen mode. So that's available on the menu as Full Screen or [Shift]+[ALT]+[Enter] will take you in and out of full screen mode. Notice that when you are in full screen mode, by default all of the tool windows go away, but if you open a tool window and dock it, then that will be remembered next time you enter full screen mode. So if now I go back and then return to full screen, you'll see that those tool windows still appear.
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Really appreciate these little tips, you get so used to a particular way of working that you end up missing some tricks.