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Two things, both related to details which are (of course) the fundamental building blocks of software development and that you appear not to have learned yet.
1) When a site has multiple forums, it's important to post in the correct place: and a forum that has instructions at the top in bright red text explaining that this isn't the right place for programming questions and telling you where to post them isn't going to get you help. See what I mean about details? It may even get you less help, because you may really annoy some folk who may have been able to help you...
2) When you say things like "Please see attachment for explanation" it's pretty important to actually attach the attachment. If you don't it makes it very difficult to open. Details again, see?
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OriginalGriff wrote: 2) When you say things like "Please see attachment for explanation" it's pretty important to actually attach the attachment. If you don't it makes it very difficult to open. Details again, see?
But, isn't it so much easier to open a non existing attachment than opening an existing attachment?
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I think it was attached with the marquee tag and just scrolled right off the screen.
Jeremy Falcon
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Or maybe it blinked away?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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He didn't put enough emphasis on it.
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Yep: Spammer from moderation queue (novingate)[^]
This was presumably a "get it past the system" attempt to see how much he can do before he's picked up.
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I just thought of an idea. I'm working on a task in my solution where I currently have 14 tabs open, and I'll be opening more as I go on.
I also need to work on another task along the way not related this the other one. This one will probably have 4 or 5 tabs open.
That's a lot of tabs open and finding them and restoring them when the solution reopens is a pain. There is the Pin thingy but it only partially does what I'm thinking. So, to manage all these tabs I have been tearing off tabs and grouping them together in separate VS windows. Each group appears as an item on the Windows Taskbar. Sort of ok. Makes them accessible but clutters up the task bar.
What would be nice is a dockable view that allows me to create groups of tabs. It could be docked like the Solution Explorer and would be hierarchical. Each tab could have a right-click option to "Add To Tab Group", which then prompts you for the group to add the tab to. A tab could appear in any number of groups.
This tab tree could be accessible from the View menu and would be maintained for each solution. It would have Close All, Sort, Find options...
What says you?
I've never done any extensions/addins in VS before. Would this be something fairly easy to create? What's the right way to build this for VS2017?
Thanks!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I discovered such an extension not so long ago, and posted to Free Tools:
Workspace Manager for Visual Studio[^]
Maybe that's just what you need?
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Message Closed
modified 14-Dec-17 14:23pm.
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My actual version is 2017 15.4.5. After installation I had to restart VS / reload my solution, but then I were able to save my workspace and have the extension working.
There is no menu, indeed; just a tool bar that you can display by right clicking on the tool bars space and select the Workspace Manager extension. By default there is no workspace saved, you have to save one first, giving it a name; after that it will appear in the dropdown. But maybe the extension has not been updated for your more recent version of VS. I hope you will get an answer from the author.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Hi, Phil,
Turns out my limited vision was the problem, the extension works fine !
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Hi, I'm glad to read that 
Kindly.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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14+ tabs - astonishing, I rarely have more than 5-6 tab open at any time and usually only 2-3, I do make heavy use of F12, CTRL- and the solution explorer. I do have 2 VS open at all times, WCF and UI.
My poor little machine is so loaded with corporate gunk that it grinds to a halt if asked to do too much.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I rarely have more than 5-6 tab open at any time
Lucky you. I regularly work with SSIS projects that contain dozens of packages, each in its own tab. It takes forever!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: SSIS projects
That like SSRS and production deployment I have managed to farm out to others. They removed my access to the production servers years ago.
I once demanded a decent development workstation, IT supplied the lowest spec machine they could find, they then loaded it with a plethora of enterprise crap ware and a year later the standard laptop was faster. I now have a standard laptop that never leaves the desk  .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: 14+ tabs - astonishing, I rarely have more than 5-6 tab open at any time and usually only 2-3,
The number of tabs I have open in VS is generally (N - 3) where "N" is the number of files in the entire solution.
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Where is the joke icon because that is just silly, a typical WPF client app we have created will have 50+ views (multiply that by 3 for xaml, .cs and VM) and 30+ data models and a swag of utility and UI specific models. I would need to have 200 tabs open and my system would certain go tits up at that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Where is the joke icon because that is just silly
It's dry British humour, no need for joke icons 
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: The number of tabs I have open in VS is generally (N - 3) where "N" is the number of files in the entire solution.
That sounds about right.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: 14+ tabs - astonishing, I rarely have more than 5-6 tab open at any time and usually only 2-3
I often have at least double figures of tabs open, although every so often I purge them. All depends on the nature of the project.
Kevin
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All's I know is that MS keeps making VS worse and worse, so I wouldn't expect them to ever make any actual improvements.
I've been dabbling in VS 2015 today. 
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Load a larger project and switch from debug to release, if you have the time.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: All's I know is that MS keeps making VS worse and worse, so I wouldn't expect them to ever make any actual improvements.
I think it gets better and better. I don't thin its stability necessarily gets any better, it stays more-or-less the same. But because its features do then VS as a whole does.
But it probably depends what type of development you normally do. Possibly certain types are more erratic.
Kevin
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it's all well and good to talk about your solution, but what are the problems you try to address? 
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