I am using Visual Studio. I have a solution which contains 2 console application projects. When I pressed run they are appearing on the same screen with Visual Studio. But I need to see console outputs on the other screen which doesn't have Visual Studio.
Start the solution, click in the top left corner of the console window, Choose Properties , go to the Layout tab, un-check "Let System position window", push ok. Move the window to the other screen where you want it to start up. Close the application gracefully.
Sometimes if it doesn't work the first time I find going back to the layout tab after putting it where you want and then just adjusting the pixel values for the co-ordinates up and down by 1 pixel once makes it "take"
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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.
Tabs keep disappearing on my Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. Below is a screenshot of how the tabs rows look with different window sizes.
On both screenshots, BOTH files are open but when the window's maximized (or larger) I can only see one of the tabs. If I resize the window to make it smaller, the other tab is shown. This happens even if I set pinned tabs to be shown on the same row. I need to say that this is not consistent (it doesn't happen always) and only occurs on one of my dev machines. I've updated the video drivers (NVIDIA) and I even reinstalled Windows on this machine.
I tried to fix it myself but resetting the window layout was the ultimate solution for me.
Go to the Window menu and select "Reset Window Layout". Then confirm.
You will need to restore all your window layout, such as displaying the Solutions Explorer. All of the special windows are found in the View menu.
They don't disappear, a file is not shown on the tab due to size issues when space is constrained.
To get to it, select the arrow drop down which will list the 'hidden' files not shown. It is above the yellow triangle.
Or selct the white triangle to the right which will scroll to the next file which is hidden. Then once moved to the right, there will be a left pointing arrow on the opposite side to move to the left hidden files.
From Extensions and Updates download "Productivity Power Tools" which allows tabs to be colored (as shown above) and placed, to the left, right or bottom. I prefer the left, so no files are hidden as they are listed horizontally.
If space is at a premium and one wants to see all of them I find that a vertical display (using the power tools) is the best such as below:
I am having difficulty docking toolbox with server explorer and data sources, in visual studio
If I do window..reset window layout, I get the toolbox where I want it. The reset position. With server explorer and data sources
But when I click toolbox on the far left, and it appears, and I drag it a bit, the toolbox option disappears from the far left and I can't get it back without doing window..reset
And I have the same problem with server explorer and data sources.
If I click them and drag the window, I can't the option back, and in fact I completely lose the menu on the far left
I have tried dragging toolbox around and different places appear for it to rest, but I can't make it go somewhere such that an option appears in the far left again, without having to do window..reset window layout.
To elaborate..
I can drag the toolbox and so that the far left arrow gets highlighted, and then release, but then it still doesn't appear as text in the far left
^^ See in the above pictures I don't get
toolbox appearing
or to show a fuller view
Drag that window to the left or right side you will get the mark where you want to place it. than leave that window your window will be docked there.
EDITED:
Windows should be Dockable and after placing the window at your position you can unpin that window so, it can be collapsed when the mouse leave.
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 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.