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POP QUIZ: How do you show the Tile Horizontally and Tile Vertically buttons in the Windows Windows dialog? - #037

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Obviously I’m not at work at 3am posting tip of the day (although i’ve had a nightmare that i forgot to write a tip and I broke my consecutive series).  I’m currently writing tips for a feature set very near and dear to my heart… Window Management… to go live months from now.  In doing so, these buttons caught my eye, and I remembered back in the Visual Studio 2005 development stage how I had no clue how to activate them, thinking it was a bug that they never become enabled. 

In ++Visual Studio 2005 we hide these buttons until you’ve done something to cause them to make sense to show.  What do you need to do to show these buttons?   (Note:  I’m talking about the Windows dialog found on the Window menu)

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This pop quiz is just a little experiment to have some fun and to see what the response is.  The answer will be its own Tip of the Day, and I’m certain someone will know what the answer is.  So let’s just see what happens.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
    You need to switch to "Multiple Documents" from "Tabbed documents" window layout to get the buttons to show, then select more than one window in the windows list to enable the two tile buttons.

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
    mmm... you could use reflector+object inspector JJJ

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
    To show these buttons you must go to Tools/Options/Environment/General and select Multiple Documents on Windows Layout. To enable these buttons, just select two or more files and they will be enabled.

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
    Go to Tools>Options>Environment>General>Windows Layout and choose "Multiple Documents". Those buttons will appear.

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
    I hate comment spam; otherwise, i would allow anyone to post at anytime.  Okay, so listed above are our winners for this pop quiz. Should i do more pop quiz-style tips from time to time?  Instead of having people leave the answers as comments, should I have them send the answers directly to me via the contact form, and then the next day post everyone's (correct) answers?   Just wondering how I can make this fun for everyone.

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2007
    I don't mind answering as a comment.

  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2007
    In Visual Studio, there's a setting to toggle Visual Studio from the default tabbed document mode

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2008
    Okay, not one of my better tip of the day titles, but it is my way of introducing the Windows Windows

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2008
    In Visual Studio, there's a setting to toggle Visual Studio from the default tabbed document mode to

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2008
    Okay, not one of my better tip of the day titles, but it is my way of introducing the Windows Windows

  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2008
    Откройте диалог Tools - Options - Text Editor – General и в секции Display установите флажок на Vertical

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2009
    Не самый удачный заголовок для совета, но подходит для представления диалогового окна Windows. Это –