Source and design in two windows

[Reidar]

Is it possible to have the source in one window and the design in another
window and perhaps the code in a third window?
reidarT

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Reidar,

With Windows new X tabgroup you can split your screen,

A pity is that as exception this does not work for Source and design
It does by instand work for Source/Design and code in a second window.

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Reidar,

Sorry, but you can't. There is a Window \ New Window menu that should do the
trick, but it does not work for designer windows, and even for VB.NET code
windows. It works for C# code windows though, and therefore you get
CodeWindow1.cs:1 and CodeWindow1.cs:2. It would be nice to get this
functionality for all kind of windows and languages.

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Carlos J. Quintero

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[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Carlos,

Something with my eyes?

Set your code on a page in Design view
Open a the code page so two tabs will be there
Do Windows->New Horizontal Tab group.

The two tabs will be in an uper and a lower screen seperated.

Cor

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

I forgot the

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Cor

Reidar talked about three views: "source", "design" and "code". Since
Windows Forms have only two views ("Design" and "Code"), I assumed that he
meant WebForms, where the "Design" window has two views "HTML" and "Design"
(tabs at the bottom of the window), and the "Code" window is apart, and I
assumed that he wanted to see the "HTML" and "Design" views at the same
time. TabGroups as you suggest won´t help with this request, but there is a
very unknown feature, the "Windows", "New Window" menu, that, if supported
by the language (C# with code windows works, but not with designers, and
VB.NET doesn't support it at all), allows you to have two identical windows
(the IDE appends ":1", ":2" to the windows caption), that you can view at
the same time with a tab group or switching from Tabbed mode to MDI mode. If
this worked for Web Forms, you could select the "HTML" view in one of them
and the "Design" view in the other one...

I hope it is clear now, let me know

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[reidarT]

What I meant was a web-form with design in one window and html in the other
window and maybe code in a third window.
reidarT

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

So my assumption was correct and the answer too, unfortunately.

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[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Carlos

So my assumption was correct and the answer too, unfortunately

Partially
The first two are as I wrote as well to my pity not possible.
One of the first two together with the thirth are possible (at least in
VS2005)

Cor

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Cor,

For the most part the question was to separate the "HTML" view from the
"Design" view, but yes, the code window and the design window can be
separated with tab groups or with MDI mode, as I said in the previous
answer, and it works since VS.NET 2002.

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Carlos J. Quintero

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