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Brian Lacy
Brian Lacy

Reputation: 19118

How to save, lock, or export my Visual Studio tool panels arrangement?

The Visual Studio interface is highly configurable, as far as the placement of various tool panels, etc.

But I guess I'm rather clumsy, because I find myself frequently screwing up my panel layout while simply trying to navigate the IDE (dragging a tab instead of clicking, etc).

After getting my panels arranged how I want them, is there any way to lock or save the layout, "set as default", export or otherwise preserve my panel layout preferences?

Clearly this information is being saved somewhere, because if I close and restart Visual Studio my current panel arrangement is saved. At the very least, is there some "unsupported" way to access this internal config and reload/reset my preferred state?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (1)

Jimmy
Jimmy

Reputation: 28426

Visual Studio has some pretty granular support for exporting your settings. For window placement, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Tools -> Import and Export Settings
  2. Export settings
  3. Make sure All Settings -> General Settings -> Window Layouts is checked (you can check or uncheck whatever else you want)
  4. Click Next and save your settings file
  5. Import the settings on your other machine (or on the same one to restore)

Upvotes: 1

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