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This article will explain in detail how to set up files for Visual Studio. The editor thinks it is very practical, so I share it for you as a reference. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

After a long study of the Visual Studio settings file, I will share with you that Visual Studio is a powerful development environment that uses many different tool windows for different tasks and purposes. You must have learned a lot after reading this article. I hope this article can teach you more. This is especially true for the new Team System functionality available in Visual Studio 2005. We have heard from many users that it would be useful to have a way to quickly switch between different window layouts to suit the current task. You can actually create this feature yourself within Visual Studio 2005, but this requires a few steps.

Step 1. Create a Visual Studio settings file. There is a new feature in Visual Studio 2005 that lets you import / export environment settings. In fact, all customizations that can be made to the environment can be exported to a file so that they can be shared with other users, imported to other computers, or stored as backups. Settings that can be imported / exported include window layout, keyboard shortcuts, menu customizations, fonts and colors, and everything that actually exists in the options dialog box (tools > options). You can export all environment settings at any time, or only some of them, as needed.

When creating our window selector, the * step is to create a separate settings file for each window layout you want to use. In this example, I'm going to create three settings files that correspond to the three window layouts I want to use: CodeWriting, CodeBrowsing, and FormsDesign.

The step is to lay out the window layout the way you like when you write the code. As far as I'm concerned, I like to set all visible tool windows to auto-hide to encode areas. Then, go to tools > Import and Export Settings and start the Import and Export Settings Wizard. Select Export selected environment settings, and click next. Select only the window layout check box, and then click next. Name the setting CodeWritingWinLayout.Visual Studiosettings, and then click finish. You have now created * of the three settings files you need. Repeat these steps to create the remaining two settings files. Obviously, you need to change the window layout and give the file a different name. I have named my settings files "CodeBrowsingWinLayout.Visual Studiosettings" and "FormsDesignWinLayout.Visual Studiosettings".

Step 2. Create a macro to import the Visual Studio settings file. After creating the settings file, you need to create three macros-one for importing each Visual Studio settings file. As you can see from listing 3 below, this code is not complex.

Imports EnvDTE Imports EnvDTE80 Imports System.Diagnostics Imports System.IO Public Module Module1 Public Sub ImportWinLayoutCodeWriting () DTE.ExecuteCommand ("Tools.ImportandExportSettings", "- import:c:\ demo\ settings\ CodeWritingWinLayout.vssettings") End Sub Public Sub ImportWinLayoutCodeBrowsing () DTE.ExecuteCommand ("Tools.ImportandExportSettings", "- import:c:\ demo\ settings\ CodeBrowsingWinLayout.vssettings") End Sub Public Sub ImportWinLayoutFormsDesign () DTE.ExecuteCommand ("Tools.ImportandExportSettings", "- import:c:\ demo\ settings\ FormsDesignWinLayout.vssettings") End Sub End Module

Step 3. Add buttons to the toolbar. You can now create the actual button that changes the layout of the window. Click tools > customize, and click the commands tab. Select Macros from the Category list box, and then scroll down in the commands list to find the three macros you just wrote. The names of these macros should be MyMacros.Module1.ImportWinLayoutCodeWriting, MyMacros.Module1.ImportWinLayoutCodeBrowsing and MyMacros.Module1.ImportWinLayoutFormsDesign. Click each command and drag it to the Visual Studio toolbar. You now need to right-click the newly placed commands in the toolbar to change their names to shorter names.

Close the customize dialog box and save your customizations. You have created your own window layout selector. Click these new buttons on the toolbar to try using them. You can even go to the tools > options. > Environment > Keyboard page to specify keyboard shortcuts for these commands.

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