Jeff Atwood is often expounding the benefits of triple monitor setups for developers, and I have to say I agree with him. However, we are about to take on a good number of new developers and are hoping to kit them out with a nice development environment. I was wondering, if given the opportunity, what you people would think of as the p...
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 ...
Let's say I have a certain budget to buy the displays for my development setup. With that budget I can either buy one larger monitor with a higher resolution or two smaller monitors and set them up in a dual-monitor setup. What are people's preferences and why? I'm interested in perspectives related to a development setup as opposed to ...
Hi, I've been trying to optimize my desktop and workspace within Visual Studio. I use two 19" LCDs, which give me a 1440x900px screen real estate for each monitor. I have posted my initial setup at my blog though I did not get a good response. With the start of Stack Overflow I think we will have a better radius of programmers. ...
Whenever I use my MacBook away from my desk and later plug it into an external display (as primary), I get into the state of having windows deposited in both the notebook monitor and the external one. To move all windows to a single screen, my current solution is to "Turn on mirroring" in the display preferences and then turn it off aga...
What IDE placement (output, errors, threads, watch, etc..) do you use (coding/debugging) in Visual Studio on Dual Monitors? ...
I am using Windows, and I have two monitors. Some applications will always start on my primary monitor, no matter where they were when I closed them. Others will always start on the secondary monitor, no matter where they were when I closed them. Is there a registry setting buried somewhere, which I can manipulate to control which mon...
Scenario: The user has two monitors. Their browser is open on the secondary monitor. They click a link in the browser which calls window.open() with a specific top and left window offset. The popup window always opens on their primary monitor. Is there any way in JavaScript to get the popup window to open on the same monitor as the i...
I have a 1920x1200 screen an would like to customize VS2008 code windows to have some areas split vertically and horizontally (tab groups). I can only seem to do all vertical or all horizontal in VS2008. Is there any crafty way of getting a mixing both? ...
My primary development machine at work is a laptop. I currently run with two monitors, which the machine natively supports (an external monitor connected via the laptop's VGA or DVI port, plus the laptop's own attached screen). I'd like to add a third monitor to my setup. What are some good hardware solutions for adding a third monito...
What is the easiest way I can have a practical setup of three monitors? ...
I've got 2 monitors, and most of the time I've got some reference material open on one screen, and Visual Studio on the other. To really get in the zone, though, I need my code to be the only thing I see. Does anyone know if it's possible to have multiple code windows in Visual Studio? So far the best I can do is put debugger output and ...
(another post here reminded me of this annoyance! this is not a dup!) I use VS2008 with multiple monitors. I have VS open on one and the app I'm debugging, reference pages, etc.. on the other. The problem is when I open a find window (Ctrl-F or click on the "Find in Files" icon) the window opens smack-dab in the middle of the two s...
I've recently acquired a second monitor and now run VS2008 SP1 maximized on my secondary (and bigger) monitor. This theoretically has the benefit of opening the application under development on the primary monitor, where -- as it seems to me -- all newly started applications go. So far, so good. The problem though is now, that the except...
What is the the best of detecting and later altering the screen resolution and multiple desktop within .net I have a small app that while runs at work on my multiple monitor/high(ish) resolution however what I want to be able to detect is the users primary monitor and set the application to that (main objective) and adjust the resolutio...
I am working on a .NET application that displays multiple charts. My users would like an easy way to say "take chart #3 and maximize it on my fourth monitor". How can I determine the number of monitors so I can give them a selection of "monitor #1, monitor #2, etc"? (Not every user has the same number of monitors.) And once the user ...
Is there a way to specify which monitor a application appears on in Delphi or C++Builder? I am developing a simple program for a customer, which displays kitchen orders on a secondary monitor, generated by a hospitality system. Currently they need to manually drag the window onto the second monitor after it starts. ...
As a two-monitor user at work, I've noticed that applications behave differently with regards to what monitor they open on (primary or secondary monitor, the last monitor the application opened on, and so on). To be honest, some applications annoy me because I want them to open on my primary monitor and I'll move them to my secondary if ...
Is there a way to programmatically change the screen resolution or enable/disable multiple monitors in Windows XP? For example to change from 1024x768 with one monitor to 1280x104 on two monitors? I would be most interested in a win32 function to do this but anything that can be tied to a windows shortcut would suffice. ...
I currently have an application which needs to have an awareness of which monitor the cursor is located when running in a multi-monitor configuration. ...