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Kushan Randima
Kushan Randima

Reputation: 2280

Visual Studio multiple instances get swapped on windows 10

I always keep two instances of Visual Studio open. Occasionally the positions of the two instances get swapped on the task bar. I guess it is a bug, which has not fixed by Visual Studio team yet. Is there something that I can do in order to prevent that? This is really important to me as I need my old project on the left had side and the new project on the right hand side as I used to. I mainly code using C#, AngularJS and Java Script

VS version - 'Professional 2015'

OS Version – 'Windows 10 Pro'

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (1)

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 101666

My guess is that the IDE window becomes unresponsive during some heavy operation (loading project?) and stops getting counted as a window (it gets replaced by a ghost window created by Windows) and when the real window starts responding again it is seen as a new window by the Taskbar and is placed last in its group. You can verify this by running ProcDump with the -h switch.

There is nothing you can do to prevent it. You could file a bug and hope it gets fixed.

If it is that important to you, you could create a little app that hides the "wrong" IDE window and then just shows it again, that should change the order. You could also try playing with ITaskbarList.

Upvotes: 1

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