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What is Visual Studio Window Manager?

April 26, 2017visual studio

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What is Visual Studio Window Manager?

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VSWindowManager is an addin for Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 to help you manage your window layouts. It allows you to save your window positions, sizes, and auto-hide status; and to change between layouts either manually or automatically. For example the following are all windows: • Solution Explorer • Class View • Properties • Error List • Output • Toolbox • And so on… This addin utilizes existing functionality in Visual Studio to save and restore named layouts. All the addin does is provide an interface for triggering a save/apply from Visual Studio. The actual layout information is maintained by Visual Studio itself. If you ever wish to move your layouts from one machine to another you can do so with the new Visual Studio 2005 functionality under the ‘Tools->Import and Export Settings’ menu. Saving Layouts Once VSWindowManager is installed it will add two new menu options under the Window menu in Visual Studio. To save the current layout of your Visual Studio Windows