Normally the Tabs in Visual Studio contains only text.
But if there is not enough space there are icons instead of the text.
Is it possible to always show these icons additionally to the text? Because I assume that this would really improve the readability.
It seems like there is NOT a way to show both the text AND icons, its either the text or the icon (when resizing the window). This is true for both Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.
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In Visual Studio 2019, I can see this icon to adjust the different panes:
What is this feature name in VS 2019 and VS 2017?
This handle can vertically split the editor.
That's the splitter control. It's found in a lot Microsoft apps like Word or Excel. Alternatively click Split on the Window menu. See Customize window layouts in Visual Studio
It's similar to Splitter Control for Windows Forms
I recently migrated from Visual Studio 2013 to 2015. It was a visually satisfactory transition. But suddenly one of my favorite feature disappeared.
Before:
And after:
It is not colorful anymore. I played around with text editor options, fonts and styles, but couldn't figure it out. Does anyone know how to bring it back?
It's trivial, I know, but yesterday, out of nowhere, Visual Studio 2012 Professional started displaying "Solution Explorer", "Team Explorer - Home", etc. in the tabs instead of nice little icons. Does anyone know how to bring back the icons?
There is an extension that does just that. It was written for VS 2015 but works fine in VS 2017.
Visual Studio Iconizer for Visual Studio 2015
Icons are displayed when the widths of the tabs are too narrow. To get the icons back, either make the pane narrower or dock some more tabs in that pane.
I'm using German keyboard layout and English Windows 8.1. However, Visual Studio 2013 keeps changing the keyboard layout to the English ones. I can't even predict when it changes it. It's pretty random.
Question: Why does Visual Studio do this and how do I prevent it?
bytecode77,
The shortcuts you are pressing in VS must be coinciding with the Windows shortcuts for changing language. This is why it seems random to you.
I think that your question is answered in more detail here:
Visual Studio appears to randomly adopt American keyboard layout
and here:
Ctrl+Space changes keyboard instead of showing Intellisense's Auto-complete list on Visual Studio 2010
I wanted to know how Visual Studio Toolbox displays only a sub-set of Controls of all the controls depending on the document open. Document can be any file, for example, when WindowsForms is open, any component that can be dropped appears on the toolbox.
How does Visual Studio does it?
I have Visual Studio SDK installed. How do I know which tabs are hidden and which tabs are displayed. (Of course "Show All.." is unchecked).
Thanks!!
-Datte