Is it possible to get the window tabs in a vertical row? That way I can navigate to way more windows directly, using the mouse. I know there are paid tools available, but using them is not an option in my working environment...
I fear this will cost me some precious evenings, making an add-in myself. Can anyone give me a head start? What are the best starting points for making a SSMS add-in like this? Or even better, is there an existing project I can use as a starting point?
If you don't want to spend money on Tab Studio, then you can still have your tabs vertically.
Just click on the 'Solutions Explorer' on the top tool bars (or ctrl+alt+L), then drag the appearing window, and nest it into the left of the management studio window, the same way as Object Explorer is there by default.
It will list all the files in the 'project' vertically, which will happens to be all your tabs on the top.
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I'm fairly new to C#, I'm following along with an online tutorial, and I was working on building some forms when I noticed that the Visual Studio 2019 C# Form Designer was acting strangely. First every once in a while I would place an element on the form and then I wouldn't be able to select any other element, it would be stuck on that one element and clicking at all would cause the selected element to resize, rather than move like I would expect. That was annoying, but I was able to close the design window, and reopen it and it worked okay again, until it happened again usually after placing 2 or 3 elements with no issue.
But then a new problem started happening, where the place that I click on the design is offset to the left and down. So In order to select an element I have to move to the right and up, in order to be able to select the element I want to edit. The red rectangle in the picture below shows the spot where I would have to click in order to select the "Create Tournament" label. This is much worse than the first problem, and closing and reopening the design window doesn't help, nor does restarting Visual Studio or even resetting my computer. This is also happening across all of my forms. I was wondering if anyone knew what was going on or how I could fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
I'm having a really annoying issue with visual studio 2012.
During Debug I was used to look at the results of objects setting breakpoints and then moving mouse over the object and start exploring.
Now on my laptop that has a screen width of 1280px, it's not possible because the variable values are not wrapped, and the box goes completely out of the screen.
see the picture below:
and I'm not able anymore to click on the plus sign on the far left to view all the elements of the IEnumerable, or List...etc..
Is there some settings I have to modify to make it work also on 1280px screen?
At the root level, it (a DataTip dialog) has an unpin icon. Click the icon and the dialog floats above any open windows, and you can drag the dialog to a comfortable place, so you can expand to view all the elements in the IEnumerable (hopefully 1280px is enough).
View data values in Data Tips in the code editor
1920px (or higher) is a better resolution.
I'm having a persistent problem with my VS2010. After working for a while, the display will start to glitch out. The code all shows as black-on-black (I use a dark background because it's easier on the eyes, but even when I switched to the default, it just makes the text white-on-white instead.) All tooltip hovers appear in the upper-left corner of the screen instead of where they're supposed to. If you select text, the code that gets selected is nowhere near where you clicked the mouse. (Not that you can read the text anyhow since it's the same color as the background.) And none of the dockable panels will appear or if they do they're all glitched out as well. The only solution seems to be closing the program and restarting it. I've been using this copy of VS2010 for years without issue, and my other projects don't seem to have any problems. This one is C#, uses a lot of Windows Forms (not WPF), has some customized Controls, but otherwise isn't all that unusual. I have the following extensions:
CodeMaid
CSharpIntellisensePresenter
InheritanceMargin
ProductivityPowerTools
Tunnel Vision Labs Output Window Services
WatermarkTextBox Control
Some of these are recently installed so they may be the culprits. Has anyone had any display problems with any of these extensions? I can live without most of them, but I'm not sure if it'll make a difference. There's no easy way to test it either, as the glitch only shows up every couple of hours or so.
Advice on approach needed.
I would like to give the user the ability to move tabs between 2 monitors.
What is the best approach?
Idea being user first load the form.
TabControls shows with eg 5 tabs
User can drag 01 tab on another monitor.
Is it possible?
Any suggestions?
I would open two windows (one on each monitor) having a Tab-Control on each of them. The moving of a tab from one window to the other I would manage by using Drag'n'Drop.
You need to use some form of Docking container control. Most of the commercial WinForms widget libraries have one, I have worked with Infragistics. There are also free ones like this one DockPanelSuite (or at least free when I used it). These docking controls will handle the transition between docking and floating, similar to the various windows you can drag around in Visual Studio (Properties, ToolBox, etc.).
I would like to create a GUI where the main panel expands him self only to the space available, and then if some of the tools 1 or 2 are activated they appear at the top right side and if other tool is started it would automatically displays below ht visible ones or at top of none is displayed...
And if possible the append function.
I think its possible to do this with a bunch of if statements to re-size the panels everytime something would change the window content but there must be an easy way to do this.
Is something similar to the workflow of visual Studio...
Right now im using Windows Forms but i think its possible to switch to WPF
So what I'm looking for is for tutorials,sites,guides or simple a call to pay attention to some options inside the visual studio himself to help me create what I'm trying to achieve.
Here is a mock up to a better understanding
http://i.stack.imgur.com/0vupi.jpg
P.S the only thing I managed to do is hide and make visible the tool panels, but the space is always occupied in blank, and they appear no at top or bottom but the place where i drop them even if i dock them.
If you're open to third party controls, Telerik makes a fantastic dock control that does exactly what you're looking for.
Another option would be Digital Rune Docking or Windows, which is free for non-commercial use.