Customizing Visual Studio Windows

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2008 exactly the way I want, from one screen (which received dual monitors), which is used only for encoding, and the other with several groups of tabs, each of which contains different tabs, for example, one group contains output, a list errors and to-do tabs; another group has tabs for toolbar windows and properties.

Now all this is cool and everything except when I am debugging something and I am debugging it, it drops all the tabs together into one group and twists all my beautifully separate groups of tabs.

Does anyone know anything that will stop Visual Studio from doing this and remember which tabs are included in which groups?

Answer 1

This is because VS has separate layout settings for encoding and debugging. The idea is that when coding, you don’t need things like an output window, etc. You want to use the solution explorer and a beautiful large code window. When debugging, you still want to see the code, as well as, possibly, many other windows that will help you (threads, breakpoints, etc.).

In fact, I believe that many window layouts are available (in addition to your own customization). This is one of the things that Visual Studio asks you when you first start it and set up your environment.

The only way I know to solve this is to also reinstall your Windows debugs. He should remember these settings and switch to them when debugging.