Did you know... You can auto-hide all of your tool windows with one command? - #130

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re: Did you know... You can auto-hide all of your tool windows with one command? - #130

Manuel — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:41:59 GMT

Happy Birthday Sara's mother!!

(thank you for the tips)

Best wishes & pingback

Alena — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:56:53 GMT

Happy Birthday to your mom! =)

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Milan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:06:10 GMT

Hi Sara,

Although I read every tip you post I do not comment because they are well explained, useful and ease to follow. I refrain from posting "nice", "keep it up", "good job".

Anyway as today is special day I want to say for your posts: nice, keep it up, good job.

Also, happy birthday Sara's Mom! I wish you to read your daughter's tips many many more years in good health and happiness.

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Jigar Mehta — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:19:03 GMT

This is really cool..

I never noticed this menu option.. You saved my occassional 2 seconds. :)

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Niels Ladegaard Beck — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:49:25 GMT

Happy birthday, Sara's mom! :-)

And Sara, keep up the good work!

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Simon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:27:29 GMT

Happy birthday Sara Ford's mom :)

Now if only I could prevent certain tool windows not realising they aren't needed when set to auto-hide (whilst retaining the setting itself) and showing themselves till you toggle it. It seems to happen a lot with server explorer.

Happy Birthday Sara's Mom!!!!

Skip Valentine — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:31:35 GMT

Your little Sara has quite a following of us computer nerds (she's like a geek magnet!! !-).

We'd all be fumblin' around inefficiently, overlooking most of the cool little things in our IDE's if it wasn't for her.

Have a happy B-Day, from Texas!!!

re: Did you know... You can auto-hide all of your tool windows with one command? - #130

Dave Gardner — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:37:48 GMT

Happy Birthday from Perth, Australia!

re: Did you know... You can auto-hide all of your tool windows with one command? - #130

Gerhard — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:41:24 GMT

I used the "Auto Hide All" and it worked pretty nice. Of course the next step was to Undo the "Auto Hide All", which looks like the "Reset Window Layout" should do that but it did not work. Only the Solution Explorer came back. The Tool Box stayed hidden (I had manually unhide), the Error List window was closed completely along with my CodeRush window. Both of these windows I had to open manually then re-dock them to their correct locations.

Is there a way to Undo the "Auto Hide All", which will re-open all the Windows that where hidden to their last docked location?

Also, Happy B-day Sara’s Mom, lots of thanks go out to you for raising such a colorful daughter.

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Stuart — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:42:33 GMT

Happy birthday Sara's mom!

Like a lot of other people here I don't usually comment but I do frequently find the tips really useful. Today's was a little dangerous though! If you have your IDE set up a particular way that you like, with some stuff autohiding and some not, this option is a great way to throw away all that information with no way to get it back, other than by hand.

Handy tip, but it should come with a warning attached :)

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Klaus — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:44:32 GMT

From Copenhagen, Denmark: Happy birthday Sara Ford's mom :-)

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ccatto — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:04:32 GMT

Hey Now Sara's Mom,

Happy BDay! Nice tip, just tried it & liked it. Good If you really want to focus on some code with long(wide) lines.

Thx 4 the info,

Catto

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Pat — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:44:43 GMT

Happy Birthday Mom!

BTW...great job raising your kid. :)

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Don Bailes — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:16:17 GMT

Dear Sara's Mom,

I would sing Happy Birthday to you, but it would not be a happy day while you were listening. In any case, please have a wonderfully happy day full of many blessings - as your daughter is to all of her readers.

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Stephen Patten — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:51:20 GMT

Happy Birthday from Orange County Ca!

Sara,

I tried this on my currently open IDE and it hid everything BUT the properties window, then, after a second attempt the properties window did close.

2 questions, How do I do this through a key stroke , and

How do I restore the previously pinned windows?

Take care,

Stephen

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Charles — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:01:24 GMT

From Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Thanks for the tips. Happy birthday to Sara Ford's mom.

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Mark Gordon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:15:53 GMT

Hi Sara,

Thanks for the weblog some of the posts have been helpful.

Did you know Visual Studio 2008 Webforms still does not perform native data binding to a data source which means I have to write hundreds of lines of code I probably shouldn't. Furthermore Microsoft no longer supports the best language it had for writing middle tier SQL Server data components for VS application yes I'm talking about Visual Foxpro. Without a true data centric language my produtivity has dropped drastically and database web application written solely in Visual Studio suffer from masses amounts of code bloat for data access.

I know it is not your fault this occured but adding data binding and having a "true" data centric language as part of Visual Studio would make our jobs alot easier. Sorry but linq doesn't fill this need.

Best Regards,

Mark

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Björn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:40:38 GMT

Herzlichen Glückwunsch Sara's Mom!

Yep, that's the German version of Happy Birthday just to be different :]

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Susan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:25:00 GMT

Happy Birthday Sara's MOM! (aka my sister, Jane)

You have raised a wonderful, bright and delightful daughter who is and has been very giving!

May your days be filled with happy memories of you, Sara and Louie!

From Waveland,MS!

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jane — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:29:02 GMT

Thank you all of Sara's blogger friends/associates for the birthday greetings. I do read the comments from people even though I do not know what you are talking about. Thanks again. I had a great day.

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Mike Wood — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:20:23 GMT

Happy B-day to Sara's Mom Jane!

It was great to meet Sara at CodeMash this year. We really appreciate her tips.

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Raj — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:54:40 GMT

Yikes! there is no way to return to original layout! :(

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Peter Ritchie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:47:21 GMT

Does resetting through Tools/Reset all settings re-show all the tool windows? You could import the default settings (or previous exported settings) and select All Settings/General Settings/Window layouts in the Choose Settings to Import page. I think that would do the trick, but I haven't tried it.

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saraford — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:05:04 GMT

Hey Peter, yeah, people could do that. They could use their auto-save file (look in tools options environment import/export settings for the file name) and import that (provided they got into the auto-hide all state PRIOR to shutting down the shell).

what i was thinking is there's a command Windows.ResetWindowLayout. I believe this command will reset based on the last state your window layout was in when you did a Tools - Import / Export settings Reset. (I need to do some testing to recall exactly, and there may have been changes in 2008). My htoughts are you could do a "reset" to your preferred state, then whenever you want to do auto-hide all, you can then do a Window.ResetWindowLayout.

Or even better, why doing i just send an email to the dev for window management =)

re: Did you know... You can auto-hide all of your tool windows with one command? - #130

saraford — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:35:50 GMT

Okay, just chatted with my former dev. The Windows.ResetWindowLayout command will reload the layout from the last import done that had a layout in it. When we do an import we make a backup of the window layout so that it can be reloaded in this way.

So... what this means is before you want to experiment with auto-hide all or you just want to cache your favorite layout, do a Tools - Options - Export - Window Layouts. Then do an Import. Now when you do "auto-hide all", you can pop everything back out using Windows.ResetWindowLayout.

Yes, this is a workaround; I think there should be the reverse command to auto-hide all. If others believe this to be so, please someone (Peter?) log a bug via Connect and let me know the ID # for others to vote on?

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:21:05 GMT

Happy Birthday! Thanks for the tips! They're really useful to all of us.

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Enrico Gebauer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:52:05 GMT

From Heilbronn, Germany: Happy birthday Sara's mom!

And Sara, thanks for all the great and useful tips!

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deeps — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:48:14 GMT

thanks a lot for the tip........it really helped...thanks again

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