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POP QUIZ: How do you show the Tile Horizontally and Tile Vertically buttons in the Windows Windows dialog? - #037

Obviously I'm not at work at 3am posting tip of the day (although i've had a nightmare that i forgot to write a tip and I broke my consecutive series).  I'm currently writing tips for a feature set very near and dear to my heart... Window Management... to go live months from now.  In doing so, these buttons caught my eye, and I remembered back in the Visual Studio 2005 development stage how I had no clue how to activate them, thinking it was a bug that they never become enabled. 

In ++Visual Studio 2005 we hide these buttons until you've done something to cause them to make sense to show.  What do you need to do to show these buttons?  (Note:  I'm talking about the Windows dialog found on the Window menu)

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This pop quiz is just a little experiment to have some fun and to see what the response is.  The answer will be its own Tip of the Day, and I'm certain someone will know what the answer is.  So let's just see what happens. 

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:29 AM by saraford

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Peter Ritchie said:

You need to switch to "Multiple Documents" from "Tabbed documents" window layout to get the buttons to show, then select more than one window in the windows list to enable the two tile buttons.

# September 13, 2007 11:36 AM

Eber Irigoyen said:

mmm... you could use reflector+object inspector JJJ

# September 13, 2007 12:10 PM

Bruno Sonnino said:

To show these buttons you must go to Tools/Options/Environment/General and select Multiple Documents on Windows Layout.

To enable these buttons, just select two or more files and they will be enabled.

# September 13, 2007 12:17 PM

Sergio Giraldo said:

Go to Tools>Options>Environment>General>Windows Layout and choose "Multiple Documents". Those buttons will appear.

# September 13, 2007 12:44 PM

saraford said:

I hate comment spam; otherwise, i would allow anyone to post at anytime.  Okay, so listed above are our winners for this pop quiz.

Should i do more pop quiz-style tips from time to time?  Instead of having people leave the answers as comments, should I have them send the answers directly to me via the contact form, and then the next day post everyone's (correct) answers?  

Just wondering how I can make this fun for everyone.

# September 13, 2007 1:16 PM

Peter Ritchie said:

I don't mind answering as a comment.

# September 17, 2007 11:58 AM

Noticias externas said:

In Visual Studio, there's a setting to toggle Visual Studio from the default tabbed document mode

# December 19, 2007 6:31 AM

Noticias externas said:

Okay, not one of my better tip of the day titles, but it is my way of introducing the Windows Windows

# January 11, 2008 6:39 AM

Sara Ford's WebLog said:

In Visual Studio, there's a setting to toggle Visual Studio from the default tabbed document mode to

# January 15, 2008 1:13 AM

Sara Ford's WebLog said:

Okay, not one of my better tip of the day titles, but it is my way of introducing the Windows Windows

# January 15, 2008 1:21 AM

Visual Studio 2008 ワンポイント said:

おわかりとは思いますが、私は午前 3 時に出勤してヒントを投稿しているのではありません。でも、記事を書くのを忘れて、せっかく続けてきたこのシリーズが中断してしまったという悪夢を見たことはあります。今、私にとって思い出深い機能について書いています。もう何か月も前の話ですが、ウィンドウの管理についての問題でした。そのとき私の目を引いたのがこれらのボタンだったのです。Visual

# July 7, 2008 3:55 AM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Откройте диалог Tools - Options - Text Editor – General и в секции Display установите флажок на Vertical

# September 19, 2008 3:24 AM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Не самый удачный заголовок для совета, но подходит для представления диалогового окна Windows. Это –

# May 27, 2009 2:44 AM
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