Granville Barnett

VS 2008 (or VS in general) and multi-monitor support

I seem to remember this particular issue making some ground in terms of verbal noise a year or so ago (actually it was more like 3 years ago) and although I don't particularly find VS support for multi-monitors that bad (although dragging windows isn't that intuitive) it maybe the time to actually recognize a many monitor development scenario natively.

Most people I speak to use more than one monitor in their dev setup, and I imagine (I know) that people at MS do as well.

My question to folks out there - have you heard any rumblings about this that suggests, or at least hints that this is on the agenda of forthcoming versions of VS?

Actually does anyone know of an IDE (regardless of its target language) that actually supports natively multi-monitor features?

Posted: May 01 2008, 11:31 PM by gbarnett | with 8 comment(s)
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steve said:

I would love to have something like this!

# May 1, 2008 7:12 PM

David Barkol said:

I've been wanting this for a long time as well. I hope somebody responds with some good news here.

# May 1, 2008 7:31 PM

rajbk said:

I run VS 2008 on one monitor and run my browsers for debugging on the other so I have never felt the need for spanning VS across monitors.

Raj

# May 1, 2008 10:26 PM

pbz said:

Delphi 7 :) All the windows were undocked by default, you were free to organize your stuff however you wanted.

# May 1, 2008 10:42 PM

scottgal said:

connect.microsoft.com/.../ViewFeedback.aspx

Looks like vNext may have something...

# May 1, 2008 11:44 PM

gbarnett said:

@rajbk - I have this too, but the point is that VS doesn't natively recognise the other screens so its a little fleshy setting it up.

@pbz - nice, I knew someone must of done it.

# May 2, 2008 7:22 AM

gbarnett said:

@Scott - thanks for the link, that last comment looks promising on the linked page.

# May 2, 2008 7:26 AM

clintong said:

I'm using multiple monitors now (VS2005) and like the idea that the windows I've dragged outside of the editor stay dragged out and positioned when relaunching the application.

In fact, one day I freaked out for a few minutes because I could not see the Property window for example. Uh, once I remembered to turn the other monitor on there it was dragged where I had left it :-)

# May 6, 2008 8:34 PM
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