While debugging, for time to time, i use the F12 button to view function's definition / declaration. Usually, VS opens the needed file as a secondary tab in the main menu. Recently, not sure what i've done, it started opening the code in the lower menu, making the debugging process difficult to perform.
I think you've previously docked one or other window in an unintended position on screen. The visual up/down/left/right indicators shown when docking windows have different options for the down position and I suspect leads to this behaviour. Play around with the docking, or try the Reset Window Layout menu item under the Windows menu.
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So I'm using double monitors to code in Visual Studio 2012, and I've been putting files on both windows.
So there will be the main window, where I have my Tools and Toolbars, and on my secondary monitor I have a floating window with only a view of some other files in my solution.
Whenever I click on my main window, it will force my floating window to the front of the screen.
This is a hassle if I am trying do research and apply it to my main window, if I try to click on my main window to make changes, it will force my floating window on my secondary monitor to come to the front and block out whatever page I was researching
Is there a setting I can change in visual studio to keep the floating window from coming to the front whenever I click on my main window?
Thanks!
Not possible as far as I found :(
I used to have pending changes, error list, find and replace and several other windows at the bottom when I reset window layout. But after a VS crash and restore, now when I reset window layout I don't have those windows anymore. How can I resume the previous default window layout setting?
Press View in main menu and turn on windows you are interested in.
Some windows, like search results will only appear as result of corresponding action.
Maybe I'm a keyboard shortcut nut, but I like using CTRL-ALT-F to get my last search results. The window will slide up and I can quickly move to the next result. Or I can hit ESC and go back to what I was doing. That last bit is the rub. If the mouse cursor happens to be positioned over the pane when it slides up, it won't disappear with the ESC key. This was not the case in VS 2008. I wonder if some option in VS 2010 is causing the behavior???
As suggested by #Hans-Passant, I've submitted this as a bug at connect.microsoft.com:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/699294/visual-studio-2010-unpinned-pane-will-not-hide-with-escape-key-if-mouse-is-positioned-over-the-pane#details
When developing on a system with dual monitors, I like to make the most of the extra space by stretching Visual Studio across both. It is fantastic to be able to see the Output, Breakpoints, Error List, Object Browser, and ReSharper windows at the same time without having to make them tiny and dock them in the main window, which leaves less space for code.
I place the main VS window on one monitor with the tabbed document and Solution Explorer windows. Any other windows I want to display are placed on the second monitor and docked together. The only problem I encounter with this method is that the main tabbed document window with the VS menu bar is the only window that can be maximized. The additional windows such as Solution Explorer, Breakpoints and Error List can only be stretched, docked or closed. I often go through the tedious work of selecting and laying out secondary windows only to have that layout be erased when I close VS.
Does anyone know of a VS add-in that gives you a window that (1) is maximizable, and (2) other windows can be docked in (ReSharper only does 2) ? Barring that, does anyone know of a good resource to learn how to develop VS add-ins? I am keen to do so myself if necessary.
I don't know of either of your suggestions, although I would also love to see better multiple-monitor support in VS. What I have done, though, is saved various window layouts (Tools > Import and Export Settings, and check only Window Layout) so that I can switch easily when I feel like it.
I am using Visual Studio 2005 with Team Foundation Server.
When I right click a file under the source control and choose "compare" VS appears to freeze until I hit escape. My guess is that the window that is supposed to be popping up is somewhere I can't get to. I tried minimizing all the windows that I can and it is nowhere to be found.
Try the keyboard shortcut to get to the window's main menu () then hit 'M' for move and hit an arrow key to attach the window to the mouse - then at the next move of the mouse it should jump to it.
Experiment with a window you can see first.
i had the same problem when trying to check in to TFS - no dialog and ESC escape key undid the freeze.
I had recently, before the problem, changed my Laptop + Monitor configuration as follows:
from Primary screen being the laptop and secondary screen being the monitor
to primary screen being the monitor and secondary being laptop.
I got rid of my secondary screen and tried again. SUre enough the invisible dialog was no longer invisible.
I had to disable my Second Screen as well. Now the check-in screen where you can add a comment IS visible.