Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Tabbed Windows, Floating a window

20Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

Figure 1-15 Floating a window

Tabbed Windows

An example of using the Dock As Tabbed Document option is the Start page. Any window set as Dock As Tabbed Document will appear as a new tab in the work area, along with all the other windows set as Dock As Tabbed Document. For example, if the Toolbox is set as Dock As Tabbed Document, it will become a tabbed document in the same group as the Start window, as shown in Figure 1-16.

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Position windows in a way that makes you most productive. In practice, you probably don’t want your Toolbox to be a tabbed window. You’ll see examples in later chapters of this book that drag-and-drop items from the Toolbox to a designer page, which is also laid out as a tabbed document window. So, trying to drag-and-drop between two tabbed document windows can be cumbersome. There are several options for working with Windows in VS, and after working with VS for a while, you’ll want to pick the layout that works best for you.

To change a window from a tabbed document, select the tab and drag the window away from the other documents, making it a floating window.