Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Customize tool windows and documents

Did you know that Visual Studio has some great 
features for managing documents and tool windows?
Check it out
You can move any tool window 
in Visual Studio by simply by  
grabbing it and dragging it 
to the location you want it.
You can use the UI to make it 
dock to a specific location.
To float a tool window, simply drag it and 
let it go wherever you want it on screen.
To dock it again, hold down the CTRL 
key while double-clicking to move it  
from last known floating location 
to the last known docking location.
And to rearrange tool windows that are docked 
together, simply drag and drop the tabs.
There are many ways you can snap 
and dock too. windows together.
To create a vertical split, you 
can drag and drop tool windows  
on top of each other using the drop 
zones to create a nice, stacked layout.
This is great for certain monitor configurations,  
and it really allows you to get 
the most out of your screen setup.
To split a document, pull down the 
split control in the upper right corner.
You now have to windows you can 
scroll independently and edit in both.
When you're done, grab the divider 
and move it all the way to the top.
To split the tabs themselves, you can 
create a new horizontal document group.
You can drag and drop documents between 
any document groups very easily.
And if you wan to get them all back into one,  
simply right-click and select 
"Move to Previous Document Group".
Instead of splitting horizontally, you 
can also create a vertical document group.
This is really good for wide screen monitors 
and, especially, the ultrawide monitors.
And again, you can drag and drop 
between the document groups.
By holding down the CTRL key,  
you can select multiple documents at the 
same time and drag them all together.
You can even float a document group 
and place it on a secondary monitor  
to really spread out and get the 
most out of your monitor setup.
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Happy coding!

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