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Video: Comparing More Than One File At a Time in Visual Studio

Visual Studio has long supported the concept of opening more than one file.  Most all IDE tools and text editors support this concept so it is nothing new.  In Visual Studio as files are opened they are displayed along the top in tabs (also a standard convention).  This allows developers to switch between files they are working on easily.  However there are times when developers need to compare two files at the same time.  Using Tabbed Groups developers can view files vertically or horizontally.  There is also the ctrl-tab feature which allows developers to quickly switch between files they have open.  Here is a video that shows how this is done.  (the video is below, requires Silverlight)

 

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posted @ Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:15 PM

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# re: Video: Comparing More Than One File At a Time in Visual Studio

Left by Jonathon Thorndycraft at 3/10/2008 8:30 AM
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Good tip. Personally I like using horizontal tab groups for when I'm moving code from one file to another or writing code in file A that requires me to read something in window B (i.e. coding a stored procedure while looking at the table definition).

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