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Did you know… VS has a file window layout mode that you can customize? - #236

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This is a part of tip #12 of my TechEd 2008 IDE tips and tricks talk.

Visual Studio comes with 4 window layouts: Design, Debug, Full Screen Mode, and File mode.  My guess is that file mode is the least used, since you can only enter it by opening a file from the command line.

FileWindowLayout

This will open the Visual Studio Environment in the “file” window layout.  You’ll note in the below image that there are no tool windows showing and the text editor toolbar is showing.  This is the default in the General Development Settings.

FileWindowLayout1

You can make any customizations here and they’ll persist across window layout states (meaning if you open a project, all the tool windows will pop back – because you’re now in design mode).  Your customizations will be persisted across Visual Studio sessions.  Whenever you shut down the shell, these customizations are saved to disk.  They are also saved as a part of your .vssettings file (Tools – Import / Export settings).

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  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2008
    PingBack from http://rtipton.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/weekly-link-post-46/

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2008
    My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. I've been on vacation in Alaska for 10 days so this is an extra long list of links. Sara Ford: Tip of the Day #236 covers the file