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Egor Pavlikhin
Egor Pavlikhin

Reputation: 17981

Show/hide a particular monitor in Visual Studio

Is it possible to quickly hide what's on a particular monitor in Visual Studio? Similar to Norton Commander where you could easily hide left or right panel, I want to quickly hide all panels on one of the monitors to see behind them. Is it possible, maybe with a plugin?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Pablo Claus
Pablo Claus

Reputation: 5920

Yes, you can. For that, you need Visual Studio Professional and Productivity Power Tools extension. (You can install it with VS2010 Extension Manager)

PPT allows Floating Tab Wells: You can dock floating document windows on a separate monitor just like tool windows. There’s also an option now which allows you to open documents as floating by default.

Every Tab group has a minimize button. You can minimize the main window without minimize the tab floating panel, and vice-versa.

In my case, I have my main window at left and floating tab at right. If I want to see behind my right monitor, I just minimize the tab group only. With that I see the code at main window and whatever has behind the tab at right side.

For more information: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/06/10/document-well-2010-plus.aspx

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

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