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Visual Studio and dual/multiple monitors: how do I get optimized use out of my monitors?

Asked 2008-08-09T22:55:26.857
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Ultramon is a great program for dual monitors (stretching screen across monitors), but I was wondering if there is any way do to something in Visual Studio like have one tab of code open on one monitor and a second tab of code open on the second monitor with only one instance of Visual Studio running?

Or are there any other suggestions on getting most bang for buck on dual monitors and Visual Studio?

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I have VS in my left monitor and the GUI/running window in the right. However, if you want to have to code tabs open on each monitor, you could use UltraMon's option to expand a window across both monitors, then drag a code page over such that it puts up a divider. Then, you align that divider with the break in your monitors.

I've done that before, just to test it out. It's not a bad setup.

answered 2008-08-10T00:02:26.020
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Three monitors -- all 1600x1200

  • Left: Email, IM, SQL Server Management Studio, Remote Desktops to servers
  • Middle: VisualStudio -- maybe multiple instances -- maximized, solution explorer and team explorer docked on right, errors/output docked bottom, others auto-hide
  • Right: Web browsers -- app debugging and normal web work, ADUC (if needed)

Other apps get moved around depending on what I'm working on and how crowded the monitors are and the interaction between the app that's open and what I need the info from it for.

answered 2008-12-31T21:13:21.430

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