Visual Studio Grief

[ME]

I am going insane. Every time I switch between a .cs, designer, or some
other type of file in Visual Studio my Toolbars move. I really want my
toolbars to STAY put were I put them! I end up having to hunt for "build"
and "run" every time I load a new type of file. What makes it even more
irritating is that often times a new toolbar displays causing the "toolbar
stack" to display a new row for it. This moves my editing screen down one
toolbar row, but just for that file type! So when I habitually click
quickly on the X to close all my design and code windows (I usually close
all my windows when I move on to a new set of issues in my code. It helps
me keep organized.) I end up clicking some "button" that I was not
expecting.

Is there ANY way to LOCK the toolbars? I would really like them displayed
EXACTLY where I place them for EVERY file type. I don't want the "toolbar
stack" to add a new row unless I MANUALLY palce one there. If a new toolbar
needs to display I could handle placing it manually (maybe make it float
until I do something with it) but the way it is now I scream at Microsoft
about once every hour.

Am I the only voice that hates the Chaotic Toolbars? Is there some Visual
Studio trick I don't know about? Is this feature to much to ask for?

- Matt

Visual Studio 2005, 2003

[Lloyd Dupont]

Yeah, that's annoying.
Things is you cannot simply remove them all because there is 1 or 2 usefull
button....
Anyway, to close my tab I use CTRL+F4, that avoid a problem you mention.
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Regards,
Lloyd Dupont

NovaMind development team
NovaMind Software
Mind Mapping Software
<www.nova-mind.com>
"ME" <tr*********@comcast.netREMOVETHIS> wrote in message
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I am going insane. Every time I switch between a .cs, designer, or some
other type of file in Visual Studio my Toolbars move. I really want my
toolbars to STAY put were I put them! I end up having to hunt for "build"
and "run" every time I load a new type of file. What makes it even more
irritating is that often times a new toolbar displays causing the "toolbar
stack" to display a new row for it. This moves my editing screen down one
toolbar row, but just for that file type! So when I habitually click
quickly on the X to close all my design and code windows (I usually close
all my windows when I move on to a new set of issues in my code. It helps
me keep organized.) I end up clicking some "button" that I was not
expecting.

Is there ANY way to LOCK the toolbars? I would really like them displayed
EXACTLY where I place them for EVERY file type. I don't want the "toolbar
stack" to add a new row unless I MANUALLY palce one there. If a new
toolbar needs to display I could handle placing it manually (maybe make it
float until I do something with it) but the way it is now I scream at
Microsoft about once every hour.

Am I the only voice that hates the Chaotic Toolbars? Is there some Visual
Studio trick I don't know about? Is this feature to much to ask for?

- Matt

Visual Studio 2005, 2003

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

ME wrote:

I am going insane. Every time I switch between a .cs, designer, or
some other type of file in Visual Studio my Toolbars move. I really
want my toolbars to STAY put were I put them! I end up having to
hunt for "build" and "run" every time I load a new type of file.
What makes it even more irritating is that often times a new toolbar
displays causing the "toolbar stack" to display a new row for it.
This moves my editing screen down one toolbar row, but just for that
file type! So when I habitually click quickly on the X to close all
my design and code windows (I usually close all my windows when I
move on to a new set of issues in my code. It helps me keep
organized.) I end up clicking some "button" that I was not expecting.

Is there ANY way to LOCK the toolbars? I would really like them
displayed EXACTLY where I place them for EVERY file type. I don't
want the "toolbar stack" to add a new row unless I MANUALLY palce one
there. If a new toolbar needs to display I could handle placing it
manually (maybe make it float until I do something with it) but the
way it is now I scream at Microsoft about once every hour.

Am I the only voice that hates the Chaotic Toolbars? Is there some
Visual Studio trick I don't know about? Is this feature to much to
ask for?

You're not alone, yet this isn't new.
The thing to do is to open 1 (not 2) instances of the IDE and load a
project, then for each file type (.cs, form editor, .config file etc.)
you open 1 and you DISABLE the toolbars you don't want. For example by
rightclicking the toolbars and deselecting the ones you don't want.

When done, close vs.net.

Now you don't have the toolbar misery when you open a form, the layout
for example isn't showing if you didn't enable it.

Ok, you can also create new toolbars, and drag the buttons you want
onto that toolbar (tools -> customize) and that way you can be sure you
don't end up wit a lot of toolbars. Also, you can remove buttons with
the tiny arrow at the right end of the toolbars so for example you can
get rid of the myriad of buttons on the help toolbar, so it's more tiny
and fits right next to the main toolbar + build toolbar.

FB

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[ME]

I appreciate the input. I guess I need to change my habits now to use the
keyboard for closing windows. ARGH! It is so difficult to break! In any
event I am SICK of this toolbar thing. I can not believe that MS hasn't
added a simple check box "Lock Toolbar". Guess they want us all pulling our
hair out.

Thanks,

Matt
"Lloyd Dupont" <net.galador@ld> wrote in message
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Yeah, that's annoying.
Things is you cannot simply remove them all because there is 1 or 2
usefull button....
Anyway, to close my tab I use CTRL+F4, that avoid a problem you mention.
--
Regards,
Lloyd Dupont

NovaMind development team
NovaMind Software
Mind Mapping Software
<www.nova-mind.com>
"ME" <tr*********@comcast.netREMOVETHIS> wrote in message
news:H-********************@comcast.com...

I am going insane. Every time I switch between a .cs, designer, or some
other type of file in Visual Studio my Toolbars move. I really want my
toolbars to STAY put were I put them! I end up having to hunt for "build"
and "run" every time I load a new type of file. What makes it even more
irritating is that often times a new toolbar displays causing the "toolbar
stack" to display a new row for it. This moves my editing screen down one
toolbar row, but just for that file type! So when I habitually click
quickly on the X to close all my design and code windows (I usually close
all my windows when I move on to a new set of issues in my code. It helps
me keep organized.) I end up clicking some "button" that I was not
expecting.

Is there ANY way to LOCK the toolbars? I would really like them
displayed EXACTLY where I place them for EVERY file type. I don't want
the "toolbar stack" to add a new row unless I MANUALLY palce one there.
If a new toolbar needs to display I could handle placing it manually
(maybe make it float until I do something with it) but the way it is now
I scream at Microsoft about once every hour.

Am I the only voice that hates the Chaotic Toolbars? Is there some
Visual Studio trick I don't know about? Is this feature to much to ask
for?

- Matt

Visual Studio 2005, 2003