I am using db4o in Visual Studio 2010 but the Object Manager Enterprise toolbar will not saved its position when I restart the IDE. It comes back each time below the standard toolbar while I would like both toolbars to be on the same row to not use vertical space.
Do you have the same issue with this extension or another extension? How can we force a toolbar to remain at the same position accross sessions?
As an alternative, I wanted to create my own toolbar with the same buttons (as a toolbar I create would not be affected by the issue), but I cannot find the buttons related to the extension in the long list of available commands.
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I have made several controls over the past time through Folder > Add > User Control, then dragging an ObjectListview onto the designer and setting anchor/ dock etc then implementing the code.
Since this morning when drag an Objectlistview onto a control, it shows up as a component in the bottom tray instead of on the control's design canvas.
I can't remember installing any updates on either visual studio or the ObjectListview NuGet package, it's still 2.9.5 from 2017. The behaviour is the same in Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 preview..
I did install .Net Core SDK 2.2.402 ealier this week but this project references Framework 4.6.1..
When I add a standard TreeView or ListView etc onto the form they get added normally.
I'm comparing the code with other controls I created this way, both derive from UserControl. The control that works as normal has the line near the end of InitializeComponent()
this.Controls.Add(this.objectListView1);
For some reason for new controls I create that line isn't generated by the designer for ObjectListview.
If I manually add that line to InitializeComponent() the control does show up on the design canvas but I can't select it or do anything with it.
Does anyone have any idea what could cause this changed behaviour and how to fix this? I'm working sundays b/c I'm very busy this is really messing me up.
I was able to fix by uninstalling and reinstalling the nuget package.
I am using SSDT in Visual studio 2017 community. I am having an extra column in my designer. Anyone knows what's it and how to remove it?
This is the new area for laying out your parameters.
You can change the size of the parameters pane by dragging the dividing line between that and the main design area.
But if you want to get rid of it, you can go to the Report menu in the Visual Studio menu bar, choose 'View' and then deselect 'Parameters'.
I don't know why but Microsoft decided to make the title bars of the windows of Visual Studio 2013 and Office applications huge! They are so thicker than normal windows and this is really annoying especially if you have a small screen.
Do you think there is a way to change this?
There is an extension for Visual Commander to hide Visual Studio 2013 title bar. In the HideTitleBar function instead of setting visibility to collapsed you can try to change height.
I don't think you can change the size of the title bar. The best you can do is to auto-hide it, that way you see the ribbon only when you need it.
There is an extension of Visual Studio https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4bb76b8a-cef1-4223-8f9c-8e815e50e56c for download.
It can change the title bar smaller instead of hiding it. Because if you hide it, you loose the control to move the window around or minimize it.
In Visual Studio, you are able to dock code windows in horizontal and vertical tab groups (something you can also do with tool windows).
However, when doing so you may end up with a lot of redundant screen space. What would be ideal would be if you could mix docking orientations for code windows. This is possible with tool windows in Visual Studio 2010. Here is an image showing the feature used for tool windows:
My question is: is it possible to get this same functionality with the code windows - i.e. being able to mix horizontal and vertical docking, like with the tool windows shown? I've heard rumours that its possible, but I've been unable to find any truth in that.
I too wish this was a naitive feature in visual studio, but there is one workaround by using the 'floating tab group' feature of visual studio
Move the visual studio main window out of the way (maybe to another monitor, or to smallest area of the monitor needed to see the tooling windows)
"Tear out" or Right Click > Float on the desired tab
Position the tab to your desire (I suggest using WinSplitRevolution, via codinghorror)
Repeat, note that you can move a tab to an existing 'floating' tab group
And voila!
There are some setbacks, some commands will pop up over the main tooling window instead of your current tab group etc. but its still pretty nice. I'm not sure if there's any changes coming in VS2012, but I haven't heard about anything related.
I've got 2 displays with very different resolution (which makes just stretching a window over them not a good idea) and actively use both of them, usually looking at one when doing changes in another.
So I wonder if I could move a child window of Visual Studio 2010 from within the boundaries of it's main window an move it to another display. Nowadays I'd enjoy the way child windows behaved (each window, incl a toolbar and a properties pane worked as an independent window on a desktop) in Borland C++ Builder (while it was senseless the days when I actually was using it).
In Visual Studio 2010 Document Windows are (finally) detachable. For an how to, you can check this post:
Free your Document windows
Basically there are different ways you can achieve this:
Simply click and drag the tab for the Document window out of the IDE;
Go to Window -> Float on the Menu Bar.