I am working in Visual Studio 2010. The main feature of VS 2010 is Multi-Monitering. How to do that. I am having 2 systems (CRT, 17 inches). I had opened my appliction, by right clicking the tab, i got the FLOAT option.That particular screen comes seperately, i had draged to the edge of my system, but the screen is not shared to my next system. Whether any Specific Configuration needed for this.
Have you tried dragging the tab you want to show up on the second monitor onto it?
Clicking and dragging the tab out of the group will automatically undock it and allow you to move it around wherever you want. This works the same way as you would move any other window to your second display, like in Windows Explorer.
Are both monitors recognized and supported by Windows?
Remember that you must to have Windows itself configured to recognize and work with multiple displays in order for these features in VS 2010 to work. Check your "Display" control panel and make sure that it shows two screens in the correct physical configuration, and that both are enabled (the "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" option must be checked).
It's also hard to tell from your question if both of the monitors that you want to use are connected to the same physical machine. VS 2010's multiple monitor support is not going to let you move windows onto a screen connected to a different physical computer without the aid of some third-party utility.
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this has been bugging me for quite a while now.
I'm using two monitors and usually have the main window of Visual Studio open on the primary monitor and things like the solution explorer, call stack, error list, output etc. on the second monitor in two separate windows which I split vertically by using the [Win] + [Left | Right] shortcut.
In another environment, this works fine (VS 2013, different machine). Of course, the window positions etc. are different between debug and regular view, but that's not really an issue.
Whenever I start debugging, the solution explorer window moves towards the right on the second monitor. This might even affect the other window (which contains the Call Stack, Output etc.).
After a few debug sessions, the window will be barely visible any more because it has moved so far towards the right...
This is even worse when I have multiple solutions open because then the solution explorer window that I see is actually the one from the instance in the background...
Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas how to fix this?
P.S.: I'm working on a windows server via a RDP session, maybe that contributes to the problem.
The following worked for me.
Under the Windows menu, save the desired layout with "Save Window Layout". I named mine "Debug". This might have something to do with the old layout names.
Stop debug mode if your in it, and apply that layout with "Apply Window Layout".
Start debug mode.
My un-docked windows flash as if they are resizing, yet stay where I had them in the saved layout.
I need to do a pre-purchase evaluation of a Flash application that is intended for a touch screen.
Since I still don't have the touchscreen now, I need to run the application on my desktop computer and the application is unusable without a visible cursor.
I am using Windows.
Is there a way to unhide the cursor without asking the developers to change the application?
I've previously used remote access software (such as Windows Remote Desktop or TeamViewer) for this purpose. Another option is a virtual machine - in both cases you'll be able to see the cursor on the local/host machine.
If you happen to be on a Windows 8 machine, you might give a try to the Windows Simulator (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2011/09/29/first-look-at-windows-simulator.aspx, available for free with Visual Studio Express) that additionally simulates multitouch gestures such as pinch/rotate with only a mouse.
A few other ideas:
1) You can try using the "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key" mouse visibility property (Control Panel - Hardware and Sound - Devices and Printers - Mouse - Pointer options). Although not entirely convenient, it might help you if the application doesn't require quick response times.
2) If the application is distributed as a .swf file and the right button hasn't been disabled, sometimes right-clicking (anywhere in the application) to bring up the context menu will cause the cursor to show up and remain visible.
This question is solely about workflow in VS2013. In VS2012, when I would build my app, VS would display the app on the second monitor attached to my system. This was nice because I could see my IDE while I interacted with the app. However, in VS2013, the app always just displays over the IDE, so I have "move it out of the way" just to get back to the code. I would like VS2013 behavior to match that found in VS2012. Is there a setting in the IDE that I can switch on to ensure the app displays on the second monitor?
I did find another question on SO about this regarding VS2012, but the solution there does not work for Win8.1 using VS2013. Is there an option for this?
it's not exactly the answer to your question - garaber has already addressed that - but also useful in this context is that you can move a window to a different display using the keyboard -
windows-shift-left arrow
and
windows-shift-right arrow
fast, easy way to move a window to an adjacent display (either to the right or the left)
EDIT:
should have noted that this is not confined to visual studio - this is a feature introduced with windows 7 and works with any window.
Here's a couple of good links that will show you how to do what you're wanting:
Save and restore form position and size
Restoring window size and position with multiple monitors
You can also change your principal screen, and it works :
In, Screen Resolution : set your second screen as a principal screen.
Most of the time I work Visual Studio with two monitors.
I setup my Visual Studio to sit nicely across both monitors with code on the one side and property windows etc. on the other.
However, occasionally I need to remove into my work station from home where I only have one monitor.
What ends up happening is I have to re-setup my entire workspace to be used on one monitor, and when I get back to my work station I have to undo this again to get to my optimal 2 monitor environment.
Is there a way to save some set layouts in Visual Studio so I could quickly switch back and forward?
Example: One Monitor Layout versus Two Monito Layout?
stumbled upon this which really helped:
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The actual solution seems to throw an error for me, but one of the comments suggests you use your "full screen" view to do it.
So I setup my screen the way I like it.
Then I press "shift+alt+enter" which turns on full screen mode.
I then setup my environment for "One Screen mode: (ironic, I know)
Visual Studio now remembers my full screen setup.
So now when I remote in I can just press "shift+alt+enter" and I'm in one screen mode.
Hopefully this post will help someone else, otherwise I would be interested to hear other solutions.
I am using Visual Studio 2010 with Windows 7
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I have the following behavior in Visual Studio 2005 while designing forms:
1 - Drop a control onto the form (suppose it's a Label, just for discussion)
2 - Drag that label to a specific location (aligning w/other controls, whatever)
3 - Release the mouse button
4 - The control is still stuck to the mouse!!!
To get it un-stuck from the mouse, I have to hit ESC, which restores the Label to it's original location.
This is driving me nuts. I literally have to use the arrow keys to move each control into place, pixel-by-pixel. I don't observe this behavior anywhere else in VS2005, nor do I observe it in the OS in general.
I am running on Windows XP inside a Parallels Virtual Machine, hosted on OS X. I don't think there is a driver problem though, b/c as I already said, no other apps demonstrate anything like this.
Please tell me there is some tiny checkbox buried somewhere that will turn off this behavior.
Sounds like you might have ClickLock enabled (or a similar feature). Try this:
Go to Control Panel in Windows
Open the Mouse control panel
Go to the Activities tab
Deselect ClickLock
If that doesn't work, maybe you have a similar feature in OS X?
This problem spread to other applications within my VM, so I reinstalled Parallels tools and it went away.