January 24th, 2023

Documents and tool windows unleashed

Mads Kristensen
Principal Product Manager

We’re continuing our video series with tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio. This week is all about managing tool windows and documents. There are lots of options to customize how we layout the various windows, documents, and tabs that you use every day. Knowing about these features will help you optimize your usage of Visual Studio and make you a happier and more productive developer.

First up, we’re looking at how to work with tool windows and documents in this video.

Now that you know more about how to customize the windows, let’s look at how to save the layouts and how to switch effortlessly between them.

We hope these features are interesting to you and help you to get more out of Visual Studio.

Happy coding!

Author

Mads Kristensen
Principal Product Manager

Mads Kristensen is a principal program manager on the Visual Studio team and has published over 150 free Visual Studio extensions. He blogs about anything related to Visual Studio and can often be found hosting various shows on the Visual Studio YouTube channel..

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  • Maya

    Hi, I'm new to the community and looking for recommendations on software and a powerful desktop where I can learn how to make the interiors of the house. This is off-topic, but I am not sure where to post it here; I checked everywhere but could find so can you point me in the right direction or help me out here only.

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    • Ana William · Edited

      First choose software and then hardware and only buy hardware on the basis of your software requirements. Also, what is the process of gifting a car? May be off topic but looking forward to know.

  • Pavel Vishnyakov

    My biggest complaint about saving window layouts is that I can’t easily update an existing one, because the layout name box doesn’t autosuggest the existing layout names – which means I must input the name exactly as it’s written or suddenly have two layouts that are similar to each other.

  • Ana William

    Thank you for the video series with tips and tricks