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Timwi
Timwi

Reputation: 66614

How to tell Visual Studio 2010 to remember the position of the Find dialog?

When I press Ctrl+F, the Find dialog appears in adventurous positions. When more than a whole screen full of text is selected, it appears completely off the bottom of the screen except for its title bar. Needless to say, this is not helpful.

A friend of mine, however, reports that the dialog is always in the same position for him and doesn't move about randomly like that. That seems to suggest that there's an option to control this behaviour. Any ideas where exactly that option can be found?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 564

Answers (4)

Malcolm
Malcolm

Reputation: 56

My find dialog was moving to odd locations every time I Ctrl+F'd to open it. But then I accidentally closed it using the [X] in the top right corner instead of hitting ESC, and guess what, it saved the position, so try that.

As for "pinning" the window, I assume that means to "dock" it. But that does not keep the same position on the screen (except by coincidence), only the same position within the developer environment, and if it's docked then every time you open it the other docked windows have to resize to make room, if you want all the find options displayed then you lose a lot of space in your docked windows area, plus you lose the ability to hit ESC to make it go away, plus after you close it you typically don't get the same arrangement back for the other docked windows.

Upvotes: 0

Abel
Abel

Reputation: 57217

In addition to what's already written, here's an alternative: Just like other windows, you can fix the find window (glue it, pin it) to one position. This does the trick for me, it's always in the same location.

Upvotes: 1

Timwi
Timwi

Reputation: 66614

Looks like you can’t.

Upvotes: 0

Vicky
Vicky

Reputation: 13244

Does Window -> Reset Window Layout help?

Upvotes: 0

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