On the right of VS2010, there is normally a group of tabs, like the solution explorer and the property pages tab. It seems that the tab to access the property pages is missing.. How can I get it back? This must be easy.
The tabs will only appear if more than one window is docked at the same spot. If you don't see them then you either have undocked the window or closed them. Closing be the more likely case here, use the View menu to get them back. Or Windows + Reset Window Layout if you're completely lost.
Click on the Project name in the Solution Explorer and then press F4. The Properties window/tab should now appear.
Note that this Properties tab is different than the one shown if you right click the project name and then click "Properties."
Under View Dropdown menu, should be there.
Or right click on the app in design mode and click properties.
Close your visual studio and open the Visual Studio Command Prompt (from window Start -> Programs -> Visual Studio XXXX -> Visual Studio XXXX Tools) and enter "devenv /setup".
If you want to dock one below the other it's a two step operation. You need to start with the two windows not connected together at all.
1) dock the first window on the right hand side of the application. This should fill all of the vertical space available.
2) make sure the second window is floating then drag it towards the first. When the arrows appear move the mouse over the down arrow and the second window should snap below the first.
Related
using Visual Studio 2019 Community here.
I have two windows split vertically (that is to say, a window on the left and one on the right) and I have a bunch of .h files open in my left window.
If I'm currently in the right-hand window, and use ctrl+shift+t (or ctrl+tab) to select a file which is already in a tab on the left window, it will open that tab in the left window and re-focus my cursor to the left window.
This sucks.
Is there a shortcut to either:
a) Open that file again but in the right window which I'm currently focused on, or
b) Move a currently-focused tab on the left window over to the right window?
I largely try to avoid using my mouse when I'm programming, so I'm also using VsVim if that helps or makes a difference.
Thanks!
Looks like there are options for you to assign your own keyboard bindings.
Tools > Options > Environment - Keyboard
Assign shortcuts to Window.MoveToNextTabGroup and Window.MoveToPreviousTabGroup.
In Eclipse when you click twice on the tab of the editors Eclipse hide all other windows except the one you write code in and when you do that again(clicking the tab of the document all windows comeback again).
Is there a similar feature in Visual Studio 2013?
Update: I found Auto Hide in Window Menu, but I don't want auto hide, I want to click something to hide windows and click again to show them.
As a programmer i love shortcut keys which is very helpful for productive work. I've search question as you mentioned. But i did not get proper answer. then i've searched solution for me which might helpful to you.
Step 1: Go to visual studio
Step 2: From tool menu open Options menu
Step 3: Go Environment -> Keyboard
Step 4: Select item Window.AutoHideAll from list
Step 5: Set short cut in "Press shortcut keys textbox". I've set Ctrl+Alt+] then click on Assign & then ok.
Step 6: Final step. Use above shortcut to hide all window other than editor window.
View | Full Screen
(In my key bindings: shift+ctrl+enter.)
However, double clicking on an editor tab also works, this is provided by one of the extensions I use, but I'm not sure which.)
Richards answer does work, but has the side effect of maximizing the whole of Visual Studio as well. Sometimes (e.g. when comparing editor text to some other text), I would like Visual Studio to only take half the screen. A solution I found in Visual Studio 2019 was:
Window | Save Window Layout (call it something like Normal layout)
Unpin all the other panes you don't want to see, ToolBox, Solution Explorer, Build Results etc. Typically Left, Right and Bottom
Window | Save Window Layout, call it say maximized Editor.
Window | Apply Window Layout, you can choose Normal or Maximized editor
Visual Studio assigns these shortcut keys automatically of Ctrl+Alt+1 and Ctrl+Alt+2 to the first two Apply Window Layout choices
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and when I do a "Find in Files" the results are returned to the "Find Results 1" window which is docked below my code editor window.
Before, I would double click on one of the results in the Find Results window and the file I clicked on would open in the code editor panel.
The problem is now when I click on one of the results, it opens in the same panel as the Find Results window which happens to be much smaller than the code editor window which is annoying.
Does anyone know how to make it so that when I double click on the search results they open up in the code editor window again?
Thanks!
Click Window → Reset Window Layout
Works for VS2013 Update 4 and all newer versions, including VS2019.
I thought I had this problem but it was easily fixed by docking the Find Results window using the very bottom of the window position selectors.
The files open in the same position as the Find Results when the window is docked in the positions immediately next to the centre position.
This is also being discussed here:
VS2010 docks code windows in the wrong place
Go the same... irritating... I realized that this unwanted behavior happened only while the app was running in debug. After I stopped debugging, a new panel was created with this file open in it. If I opened new files, they would open in this new panel. If I close all files in this new panel, opening new files from the "Find In Files" open in the standard code editor window (as long as the app is not running).
I had this problem also. I experienced the problem in VS2013. I did not want to do "Window -> Reset Window Layout" because it seemed like that was going to do other stuff that I did not want it to do.
Here was my solution:
I noticed the problem in VS2013 in which I had project "A" open.
I opened another copy of VS2013 and opened project "B".
I closed the copy of VS2013 that was exhibiting the annoying behavior: project A.
I closed the copy of VS2013 that had project B open.
This saved the settings from the "good" copy.
Opened project A in VS2013 and all was well.
Obviously, the caveat is that this requires you notice the problem before you close VS2013. But if you do notice it in time, this is a pretty easy solution.
For those who do not want to dock their "Find Results", "Error List", "Output",... windows to the right, and for those the above answer which is Window->Reset Window Layout doesn't work: may be you are trying to dock wrong place! You should dock these windows to very bottom. Refer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2735726/6176317
For me, this was happening with a Visual Studio window containing an SQL file with the Window Split option active. If the cursor was in the top pane of the window, both Ctrl + F (Find) and Ctrl + H (Find & Replace) would cause the find control to appear in the other (main) Visual Studio window. Moving the SQL window into the main window just caused Find and Find & Replace to display the "Find in Files" dialog instead until another tab was selected.
The workaround was to place the cursor in the bottom pane which caused both Find and Find & Replace to work correctly in that pane of that window. Unfortunately as long as the Window Split is there, the bug is still there in the top pane.
How can I set the position for the output prompt in Visual Studio 2008 when debugging is started?
I have two screens and I want the prompt to always appear on my second screen so that I still can see the code on the primary screen, I have tried some tricks but I haven't got it right.
I'm not sure what you mean by "outputprompt". If you are creating a command line application and are talking about the command window, then
position the window where you want it (you can pause you app if it closes too fast)
click on its system menu, then click on properties
on the third tab of the appearing properties dialog, enter the values you like (be sure to uncheck automatic window positioning)
close the dialog by clicking OK
in the dialog that appears, pick the option that changes the link, instead of just changing the current window (I'm not sure either a German or English translation of the options is helpful for you)
HTH.
I have a file, xyz.cpp. I want to open two instances of this file in Visual studio (BTW, I am using Visual Studio 2005). Why would I want to do so? I want to compare two sections of the same file side by side. I know workarounds such as:
Make a copy of the file. But the problem is that it's not elegant, and I don't want to make copies every time I am faced with this.
I can split the window into two. The problem with split it that I can split it horizontally only. The result of a horizontal split is that the right half of my screen is white space.
If I were able to split it vertically or open two instances of the same file, it would increase the number of lines of code I can compare.
Visual Studio
Here's how to do it...
Select the tab you want two copies of
Select menu Window → New Window from the menu.
Right click the new tab and select New Vertical Tab Group
If New Window is not listed in the *Window menu note that the command does exist, even as of Visual Studio 2017. Add it to the Window menu using menu Tools → Customize → Commands. At that point decide where to put the New Window command and select Add Command.
VS Code
In Visual Studio Code version 1.25.1 and later
Way 1
You can simply left click on your file in the side-panel (explorer) and press Ctrl + Enter.
Way 2
Simply right click on your file in the Visual Studio Code side-panel (explorer) and select the first option open to the side.
For Visual Basic, HTML and JScript and RDL Expression, the Window > New Window option mentioned in PaulB's answer is disabled.
However an option can be changed in the Registry to enable the menu item.
All other languages do not restrict to a single code window so you can use PaulB's answer without editing the registry.
Enabling New Window in Windows Registry.[1] [2]
Go to the following registry key. This example is for Basic (Visual Basic), but the key is also there for HTML, JScript and RDL Expression.
64-bit OS: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Languages\Language Services\Basic
32-bit OS: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Languages\Language Services\Basic
Find the value Single Code Window Only and do one of the following:
Set it to 0
Rename the value
Delete the value (use caution!)
This will enable the "New Window" menu item, but it may still not be visible in the menu.
Adding Menu Item
To actually see the New Window menu item I had to add it back into the menu:
Tools > Customize... > Commands > Add Command...
Select 'Menu Bar' the select the 'Window' menu in the dropdown
Add Command... > Window > New Window > OK
Restoring Registry Value
Copy-paste this to notepad, save as a .reg file and import the file into your registry to restore the initial setting.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Languages\Language Services\Basic]
"Single Code Window Only"=dword:00000001
Go to menu → Windows → New Window:
You can use the Windows → New Window option to duplicate the current window. See more at: Why I like Visual Studio 2010? Undock Windows
Open the file (if you are using multiple tab groups, make sure your file is selected).
Menu Window → Split
(alternately, there's this tiny nub just above the editor's vertical scroll bar - grab it and drag down)
This gives you two (horizontal) views of the same file. Beware that any edit-actions will reflect on both views.
Once you are done, grab the splitter and drag it up all the way (or menu Window → Remove Split).
How to open two instances of the same file side by side in Visual Studio 2019:
Open the file.
Click Window → New Window.
A new window should be open with the same file.
Click on Window → New Vertical Document Group.
Result:
With the your file opened, go to command window (menu View → Other Windows → Command window, or just Ctrl + Alt + A)
Type:
Window.NewWindow
And then
Window.NewVerticalTabGroup
worked for me (Visual Studio 2017).
Or using menus:
Menu Window → New Window
Menu Window → New vertical tap group
Luke's answer didn't work for me. The 'New Window' command was already listed in the customize settings, but not showing up in the .js tabs context menu, despite deleting the registry setting.
So I used:
Tools
Customize...
Keyboard...
Scroll down to select Window.NewWindow
And I pressed and assigned the shortcut keys, Ctrl + Shift + W.
That worked for me.
==== EDIT ====
Well, 'worked' was too strong. My keyboard shortcut does indeed open another tab on the same JavaScript file, but rather unhelpfully it does not render the contents; it is just an empty white window! You may have better luck.
Window menu, New Horizontal/Vertical Tab Group there will do, I think.
When working with Visual Studio 2013 and VB.NET I found that you can quite easily customize the menu and add the "New Window" command - there is no need to mess with the registry!
God only knows why Microsoft chose not to include the command for some languages...?
For newer versions (such as Visual Studio 2017)
Select the window you want to duplicate.
Go to the window tab and click on split at the top of the list.
When you are done, click it again to toggle it off.
For file types, where the same file can't be opened in a vertical tab group (for example .vb files) you can
Open 2 different instances of Visual Studio
Open the same file in each instance
Resize the IDE windows & place them side by side to achieve your layout.
If you save to disk in one instance though, you'll have to reload the file when you switch to the other. Also if you make edits in both instances, you'll have to resolve on the second save. Visual Studio prompts you in both cases with various options. You'll simplify your life a bit if you edit in only the one instance.
I don't have a copy of Visual Studio 2005, but this process works on Visual Studio 2008:
Open xyz.cpp along with some other file.
Right click on tab header and select new vertical tab group.
Left click on that other file in the first tab group.
Open xyz.cpp through solution explorer again.
You should now have two instances of file in separate vertical tab groups.
To work on two sections of one long file, simply use a shortcut (Ctrl + \) or click on the split editor window while you are on the selected tab. The icon is on the top-right of the Visual Studio Code.