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urbanhusky
urbanhusky

Reputation: 1385

Visual Studio 2015 moves undocked windows during debugging

this has been bugging me for quite a while now. I'm using two monitors and usually have the main window of Visual Studio open on the primary monitor and things like the solution explorer, call stack, error list, output etc. on the second monitor in two separate windows which I split vertically by using the [Win] + [Left | Right] shortcut.

In another environment, this works fine (VS 2013, different machine). Of course, the window positions etc. are different between debug and regular view, but that's not really an issue.

Whenever I start debugging, the solution explorer window moves towards the right on the second monitor. This might even affect the other window (which contains the Call Stack, Output etc.). After a few debug sessions, the window will be barely visible any more because it has moved so far towards the right...

This is even worse when I have multiple solutions open because then the solution explorer window that I see is actually the one from the instance in the background...

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas how to fix this?

P.S.: I'm working on a windows server via a RDP session, maybe that contributes to the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 579

Answers (1)

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 860

The following worked for me.

  1. Under the Windows menu, save the desired layout with "Save Window Layout". I named mine "Debug". This might have something to do with the old layout names.
  2. Stop debug mode if your in it, and apply that layout with "Apply Window Layout".
  3. Start debug mode.

My un-docked windows flash as if they are resizing, yet stay where I had them in the saved layout.

Upvotes: 2

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