Visual Studio Split View

Visual Studio Split View App
Visual Studio Split View Same File
Visual Studio Split View Vertically
Visual Studio Split View Apps

Moves to the next pane of a split pane view of a single document: Shift-F6: Moves to the previous pane of a document in split pane view: Ctrl-Pagedown: Moves to the next tab in the document or window (e.g., you can use this to switch the HTML editor from its design view to its HTML view: Ctrl-PageUp: Moves to the previous tab in the document. Split a view to see two different types of project information—two views—on your screen at the same time. For example, you can drill down into the details about a specific task without losing the big picture shown in the Gantt Chart. On the View tab, in the Split view group, select the Details check box. Next to the check box, pick the view you want for the bottom half of the screen. Bonus tip: If you hit CTRL+ENTER in that dialogue Visual Studio Code opens it in a new window. Split your editor window People love vim because it is easy to split views among the editor. Visual Studio Code has that also build in. CTRL+ To create 2 columns. CTRL+k, let go of k and hold CTRL and press To create a new row. Go to tools-Option-Web Forms Designer, Select Split View Vertically option. Restart the Visual Studio.

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Visual Studio Split View App

You can work on code in several locations at once. Do this by splitting an editor window, or by opening several instances of editor windows.

Note

Not all editor windows support multiple instances.

Split an editor window

An instance of an editor window can be split into two separate views for easier editing.

To split a pane

Click within the editor window to give it focus.
From the Window menu, select Split.
The editing area divides into two panes separated by a splitter bar. You can scroll these panes independently to view and edit different parts of the active document at the same time. Any changes made in one pane are reflected in the other.
Tip
To make one pane larger than the other, drag the splitter bar upward or downward.

To return to single-pane view

From the Window menu, select Remove Split.

Create new windows

You can also create multiple instances of an editor window. This feature allows you to open a lengthy document in more than one instance of an editor, so that you can view and edit different sections simultaneously in separate, full-sized editor windows.

On the Window menu, click New Window.
A new tabbed instance of the editor is added.

The Terminal of course has Tabs so you can open many different shells at once within a terminal instance, often I want to do things like Split Screen/Split Pane. 'Use Tmux!' you might shout, and that's a valid thing to yell if I was only living in Linux (using WSL2). There are several multi-pane options to choose from within a shell using something like tmux.

However, the Windows Terminalsupports a multi-pane view at the Terminal-level, regardless of shell!

There's great docs on setting up hotkeys for this, and you should.

The best way to get started with ZERO setup is to click the main Dropdown in Windows Terminal and hold down the ALT key while you click on a shell!

Below you can see Ubuntu/WSL2 on the left running htop, while on the right I'm running PowerShell 7 (powered by .NET Core) and sitting in my podcast's source code directory.

I'll then click the dropdown, hold ALT, and click on the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt that I've added to the menu. I'm doing this while Ubuntu is the focused pane.

And the result:

Now you can see the VS2019 prompt in the lower left corner. With hotkeys I can control where panes open.

I can even navigate between pans with the ALT key and my arrow keys! Even better, SHIFT+ALT and the arrow keys will resize them!

Go spend some time learning about Panes in Windows Terminal and let me know how it goes for you! It's gonna make your command line life so much better!

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