So i'm using Visual Studio 2010 with a dual monitor setup and I like to have my Build/Team -explorer tab on my other screen.
But the the problem I am raging with is the following:
"sketch" of the problem: http://pastebin.com/X8K3ihGJ
If i'm coding and I switch to the word doc on screen 1 (it pops to the front (y) )
But if i then want to click on the build explorer on screen 2, the vs main screen on screen 1 goes to the front.
Is there anyway it's possible you can set the visual studio windows' on top state's independent from each other?
It's a minor issue but it's hurting me all day :)
Thx!
Try the Productivity Power Tools extension. Dock the build explorer in a floating tab well and enable the "enable independent floating tab well" option in the Document Tab Well settings. This will allow windows to be on top independent of each other.
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Is there a way to adjust the cursor blink rate in Visual Studio 2015? For example, in Notepad++ there is this window where I can adjust the blink rate:
Thank you
Its pretty simple and easy
Go to file--->preferences---->settings
Select search item as "cursor"
In the results section. Choose cursor blinking to "solid"
Here you go problem solved.
Visual Studio gets the cursor settings from your OS settings. You can stop the cursor from blinking by changing the cursor blink rate to "none".
Windows XP/7/8/8.1
Go to Control Panel.
Click on the Keyboard item.
Under "Change blink rate" move the slider to "none" position.
Windows 10
Due to the discontinuation of the Control Panel in Windows 10, and the absence of corresponding option in the new Settings app, the easiest way to bring up the Keyboard Properties window is to run the following command from the Run prompt.
control keyboard
The same command can be used in previous Windows versions if you find this method easier.
Visual Studio Code: Note that this does not work with Visual Studio Code per version 1.22.2, because unlike Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code has its own controls for displaying and animating the cursor.
I've been using Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition for several months now and have one small problem. When I close a tab with middle click, it closes on button press down, not on button press up.
If this doesn't make sense, what I can use as an example is the tab close behavior in Firefox. When you hold middle click over a tab, it doesn't close the tab immediately, it only closes when you release that button.
Is there any way to replicate this behavior in Visual Studio 2013? I frequently close the wrong tab, but happen to hold middle click when I do it, so this change would help me a bit.
I don't see a way of doing this in Visual Studio but you could try using Mouse and Keyboard Center 2.0 (a free download from Microsoft).
According to Tech Republic (emphasis mine):
Although this basic functionality is helpful, the utility's best feature is that it allows for application specific button assignments. As such, the right mouse button could be assigned one function in File Explorer and a different function in Microsoft Office.
I always exit Visual Studio when its main window is at a certain area on the screen. But when it starts up, its window is always maximized. If I click the maximize button, it is restored to the size I left it in previous session.
It is bothersome to do this at every program start-up. It covers the area of the screen which it isn't supposed to; making other tools working on that area stay behind. And what makes it even more cumbersome is the bulky and slow start of Visual Studio.
Is there any way of setting the start up window size and position? It is like, in somewhere an option "Start main window maximized" is checked, but I can't find such a thing under Tools > Options. Visual Studio 2010 did do this behavior.
Version: Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate 11.0.51106.01 Update 1
Theme: Dark
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.