Whenever I look at a XAML file, I always split them vertically (design surface on the left, XAML on the right), as I find it much easier to work this way.
Usually, when I close and reopen VS, the setting is remembered, however fairly often VS just forgets it, and opens them all split horizontally.
Anyone any idea why it does this?
You can set the default to split vertically from
Tools > Options > XAML Designer:
Default document view : split
Split Orientation: vertical
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Using Visual Studio 2019 Professional (and if relevant, editing C#). While using the IDE, the Scrollbox on the vertical scrollbar keeps changing size depending on where you are in the document. It might be smaller at the bottom and then get bigger as you scroll upwards or vice versa. This is disconcerting and makes navigation harder.
In the image below, Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > Overview background is set to Maroon to better show the Scrollbox in case there is ambiguity. The Scrollbox is the bit between the orange lines which you can grab to scroll up and down.
In Notepad++, the Scrollbox size depends on the height of the application and the number of lines in the text file being edited. The size (correctly) changes size when you add or remove lines, but it does not change size dynamically depending on where you are in the document. This is the functionality I'm looking for.
A related Stackoverflow question suggested disabling Edit > Advanced > Word Wrap. This does not resolve the issue.
How do you turn off "dynamic Scrollbox sizing while scrolling"?
When the IDE is in Map mode, it does not appear to be possible to fix the Scrollbox height.
To resolve this issue, go to Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Scroll Bars > Behaviour, and select Use bar mode for vertical scroll bar.
In Xcode 10 (and earlier) we could have two editors vertically stacked on top of each other. I have not managed to do that in Xcode 11, only horizontally stacked, which is not optimal using my rotated monitor (using my monitor "in portrait" mode).
Is it possible to vertically align editors?
Choosing File > New > Editor Below will add an editor below the current editor and tell Xcode to vertically stack future editors for that project. You can also choose View > Change Editor Orientation to toggle stacking editors vertically and horizontally.
Thanks to #Mark's answer I knew that it was possible to do vertical alignment of editors, but just now I also discovered that the good old shortcut gets updated according to current Editor aligment.
CMD + SHIFT + O ('Open quickly')
Enter name of type/file you would like to open in a new editor, select the file in the list
Followed by
ALT + ENTER to open the selected file in a new editor (using latest preferred alignemt)
In the VSCode editor when you pull the scroll bar down to the bottom of the file, all you see is a blank page, since the text has scrolled up past the top of the text editor window. This makes scrolling to the bottom difficult because you can't just pull the scroll bar quickly all the way down but have to carefully position the cursor so you can still see your code.
Very similar to How to make Visual Studio editor stop scrolling past bottom of a file?, but comments have pointed out that question/answer is for Visual Studio. This answer is for VSCode on the macOS and Windows.
The correct answer is seen here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40588828/1189470
There is a configuration option provided in VSCode for the functionality you specified. To enable it, go to File -> Preferences -> user settings
On the right side of the editor in settings.json paste the below line at the bottom (before closing bracket), save and close.
"editor.scrollBeyondLastLine": false
This will prevent the editor from scrolling beyond the last line.
This is now exposed as a simple checkbox labeled "Editor: Scroll Beyond Last Line" in File/Apple -> Preferences.
If just for readability you would like some space at the bottom of the file - a configurable amount - try this setting as of v1.43:
editor.padding.bottom in pixels
Editor> Padding: Bottom
Controls the amount of space between the bottom edge of the editor and
the last line.
and/or
editor.padding.top // but this isn't sticky in the sense that you can scroll right past the padding top and it is gone. It doesn't stay.
Is it possible to change the width of the text editor in VS2012 - I've got a fairly wide screen and use fairly small text so I end up with a lot wasted real-estate in the middle of my screen.
I don't want to turn off word wrap - I just want the wrap to start further right on the line. If that makes sense!?
You can set this with HTML in Visual Studio 2012 but there is no global setting and it's missing in quite a few languages.
You can just put another "dummy" window next to the one you are writing in, so the actual editor window will be smaller. You can put it on the left if you want to pan the text to the right, and to the right if you want to shorten the lines.
I actually found the answer elsewhere; VS doesn't appear to provide this functionality but Resharper does. Resharper -> Options -> Code Editing -> C# -> Formatting Style -> Line Breaks and Wrapping -> Right margin (columns)
I put mine to 200 which fixed the issue
I know that this is not what you are looking for, but I believe it solves the same problem. I too have a fairly large screen and try to make use of it as optimally as possible.
I hate tabbing between code or design tabs and try to avoid that as much as possible.
VS has a feature that permits the user to create Horizontal or Vertical Tab groups and ever since I have started using it, I have found it very helpful. These options are present in the context menu by right clicking the tab or in the VS Window Menu (Menus are seen only if the tab groups feature is not active).
I have created a screenshot with Vertical Tab Groups created as shown below. In this example, I have a overview of both the designer and the code view at the same time.
We can use tab groups whenever there is a dependency such as comparing code, redesigning a module, etc. I know it takes a little time to get used to this feature but try it out and see :)
I am using visual studios 2008. My laptop has the max screen res of 1366x768.
What can i do to get more reading space? i was thinking of making the font smaller but it would be more helpful if i can make everything smaller (toolbar icons, text, etc)
The only improvement i done so far was remove a bunch of things under the toolbar so i have only one line. Actually for this project i remove the standard bar so i have have the solution and text directly under the menu with no toolbar. What else can i do to maximize reading space.
Tools > Options > Environment > General > Uncheck "Show status bar"
Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Uncheck "Navigation bar"
Install the "Hide Main Menu" extension available here.
Enable Auto-hide the taskbar in your Windows Taskbar properties.
That should get you at least 5-7 more lines.
Dual screens. The more pixels the better. I like 1920x1280 extended to across a matched monitor with vertically split tabs.
Probably not the answer you are looking for, but really, it HELPS A LOT.
Ok ok:
Try Lucida Console as a font - it's readable at 8pt - and fixed width!
Hit Alt+Shift+Enter to get into Full Screen mode.
Float all your "helper" windows and use Ctrl+Tab to get to them. (Click using mouse)
Pin your Windows Task Bar to the left or right of your screen to give more vertical reading space.
What I do is unpin all the various tool windows and views. Unpin the Solution Explorer, Properties viewer, Output etc. and the Toolbar. This leaves you with just the coding window and small bars around that allow you to hover over the edges of the window and see everything you just unpinned.
set the Solution explorer on the right to Auto-Hide, close the error window when possible (as in when you're not fixing errors), and try and drop the number of toolbars vertically to 1. You can also change the size of the text down by going to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and colors but i wouldn't shrink the text unless you have good vision. I recommend Consolas 12 Point for your code; it's a bit big but very nice looking!
I got rid of the toolbars altogether and made things like the Solution Explorer autohide. I came to the realisation that the only toolbar button I ever used was a custom tool one I'd put there (I use the menu for that now). I'm running at 1920x1200 so real estate wasnt an issue - I just wanted less visual distractions. Just me and the code.