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davewasthere
davewasthere

Reputation: 3028

Visual Studio 2008 Window layout annoyance

I'm having a weird issue with Visual Studio 2008. Every time I fire it up, the solution explorer is about an inch wide. It's like it can't remember it's layout settings.

Every un-docked window is in the position I place it. But if I dock a window, it's position is saved, but it's size will be reset to very-narrow (around an inch) when I load.

I've never come across this before and it's pretty annoying. Any ideas?

The things I've tried:

none of which changed the behaviour of docked windows. (Also, definitely no other instances running..)

I do run two monitors, but I've had this setup on three different workstations and this is the first time I've come across it.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 6640

Answers (3)

Eric Minkes
Eric Minkes

Reputation:

I had the same problem. It turned out that if the VS window was non-maximized, it was really small. So after making the non-maximized wider, the problem disappeared.

Upvotes: 11

Ali Parr
Ali Parr

Reputation: 4787

I occasionally get this bug, and others related to layout/fonts/colouring etc. A little trick I've found is use the Tools -> Import and Export Settings, export your current settings once you've got everything setup as you like, then close and reopen Visual Studio and import. Hopefully that'll sort you out.

In 2005 there were some little bugs with viewing Project/Solution property panels when the Solution Explorer wasn't in its default position, docked on the left of the screen - I don't know if that's changed in VS2008, but you might want to put it back there and see.

Now, when are we going to get decent MultiMonitor support?!

Upvotes: 3

jfs
jfs

Reputation: 16748

Maybe you're closing Visual Studio while some other instance is still alive. The settings of the last instance that is closed is the one that will be applied.

Upvotes: 0

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