Customize File Explorer Windows 10
Micol Cohn
In Visual Studio, you can customize the position, size, and behavior of windows to create window layouts that work best for various development workflows. You can also personalize how you use tabs to interact with your code.
When you customize a window layout, the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) remembers it. For example, if you change the docking location of Solution Explorer and then close Visual Studio, the next time that you open Visual Studio, Solution Explorer will be docked in that same location. The Visual Studio IDE remembers the docking location even if you're working on another computer.
You can also name and save a custom layout and then switch between layouts with a single command. For example, you could create a layout for editing and a layout for debugging, and switch between them by using the Window > Apply Window Layout menu command.
Starting with Visual Studio 17.9, the list of open documents was moved from a binary format in the .suo file to a plain text format in a JSON file. The JSON file is saved in the hidden .vs folder in the same location of the .suo file (solutionFolder.vs\SolutionName\v17). This JSON file contains the list of open documents and their properties, the layout of document groups and containers, and vertical tab column width. Storing in plain text as JSON allows for easier back up as well as the ability to check in different sets of open documents that can be restored as needed.
The IDE has two basic window types, tool windows and document windows. Tool windows include Solution Explorer, Server Explorer, Output Window, Error List, the designers, the debugger windows, and so on. Document windows contain source code files, arbitrary text files, config files, and so on. You can resize or drag tool windows by their title bar. You can drag document windows by their tab. Right-click on the tab or title bar to set other options on the window.
The Window menu shows options for docking, floating, and hiding windows in the IDE. Right-click on a window tab or title bar to see more options for that specific window. You can display more than one instance of certain tool windows at a time. For example, you can display more than one web browser window, and you can create extra instances of some tool windows by selecting New Window on the Window menu.
When you have to view or edit two locations at once in a document, you can split windows. To divide your document into two independently scrolling sections, select Split on the Window menu. Select Remove Split on the Window menu to restore the single view.
You can arrange toolbars by dragging them to where you want them, or by using the Customize dialog box. For more information about how to position and customize toolbars, see How to: Customize menus and toolbars.
You can dock a tool window anywhere inside the IDE frame. You can also dock some tool windows as tabbed windows in the editor frame. And, you can dock document windows within the editor frame, or pin them to their current position in the tab order.
To arrange tool and document windows, you can place your cursor on the title bar of a window and then drag it to where you want it. Alternatively, you can right-click the title bar of the window to use its context menu, or you can use the commands on the Window menu.
When you select and drag the title bar of a tool window or the tab of document window, a guide diamond appears. During the drag operation, when the mouse cursor is over one of the arrows in the diamond, a shaded area appears that shows you where the window can be docked if you release the mouse button.
Tool windows can be fastened to one side of a frame in the IDE or within the editing frame. A guide diamond appears when you drag a tool window to another location to help you to easily redock the window.
You can close a tool window by selecting the X in the upper right of the title bar. To reopen the window, select the tool windows you want by using View on the menu bar, or by using its associated keyboard shortcut.
Tool windows support a feature named Auto Hide, which causes a window to slide out of the way when you use a different window. When a window is automatically hidden, its name appears on a tab at the edge of the IDE. To use the window again, select the tab so that the window slides back into view.
To set whether auto hide operates on tool windows individually or as docked groups, select or clear Auto Hide button affects active tool window only in the Options dialog box. For more information, see the Options dialog box: Environment > General page.
Tool windows that have auto hide enabled may temporarily slide into view when the window has focus. To hide the window again, select an item outside of the current window. When the window loses focus, it slides back out of view.
You can create multiple instances of Solution Explorer and move them to another monitor. Right-click the Solution node and select New Solution Explorer View. To close the extra instances, double-click each one while pressing the Ctrl key.
You can return the IDE to the original window layout for your settings collection by selecting Windows > Reset Window Layout from the menu bar. When you run this command, the following actions occur:
Visual Studio enables you to save up to 10 custom window layouts and quickly switch between them. The following steps show how to create, save, invoke, and manage two custom layouts that take advantage of multiple monitors with both docked and floating tool windows.
When you do so, Visual Studio displays the SQL Server Object Explorer window, which enables you to access tables, views and other objects in your database. You can either float this window or leave it docked. Adjust the other tool windows the way you want them. For added realism, you can add an actual database, but it's not necessary for this walk-through.
When your layout is how you want it, select Window from the menu bar, and then select Save Window Layout. Name this layout "DB Project". (Don't bother with a debug mode layout for this project.)
If you apply a multi-monitor layout on a single-monitor system, the floating windows that you placed on the second monitor will now be hidden behind the Visual Studio window. You can bring these windows to the front by pressing Alt+Tab. If you later open Visual Studio with multiple monitors, you can restore the windows to their specified positions by reapplying the layout.
You can remove, rename, or reorder your custom layout by selecting Window > Manage Window Layouts. If you move a layout, the key binding is automatically adjusted to reflect the new position in the list. The key bindings themselves can't be modified, but you can store up to 10 layouts at a time.
You can personalize tabs to interact with document windows in several different ways. For example, you can view a preview of a file in the editor without opening the file, you can group your tabs, arrange them in multiple rows, and more.
In the Preview tab, you can view files in the editor without opening them. You can preview files by selecting them in Solution Explorer, during debugging when you step into files, with Go to Definition, and when you browse through results of a search. Preview files appear in a tab on the right side of the document tab well. The file opens for editing if you modify it or select Open.
Tab groups extend your ability to manage limited workspace while you're working with two or more open documents in the IDE. You can organize multiple document windows and tool windows into either vertical or horizontal tab groups and shuffle documents from one tab group to another.
New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 and later: We added one of the top feature requests, vertical document tabs. Now, you can manage your document tabs in a vertical list on either the left or right side of the editor.
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The 22H2 has updated the file explorer ribbon and the print queue display in the lower right hand corner of the screen (by the time) when printing. Before the update we were able to revert the ribbon and the print queue display by using a register fix. Restore Windows 10 Ribbon in Windows 11 But since the 22H2 update it has disabled the fix and we are stuck with the windows 11 file explorer ribbon.
Can we get a fix to restore the file explorer ribbon and the print queue display( as its tooo huge to view print jobs).
Thank you
The second batch will do the same in reverse, restoring the new ribbon. You can add the first batch to the "startup" folder and it works fine. Classic Shell works fine with both. The only downside for me is that "explorer patcher" gets kicked out with the old ribbon which means there is no context menu on the taskbar on right-click. But it is easy enough to swap back and forth using the batch files.
At its heart, Visual Studio Code is a code editor. Like many other code editors, VS Code adopts a common user interface and layout of an explorer on the left, showing all of the files and folders you have access to, and an editor on the right, showing the content of the files you have opened.
VS Code comes with a simple and intuitive layout that maximizes the space provided for the editor, while leaving ample room to browse and access the full context of your folder or project. The user interface is divided into five main areas:
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