VS.Net 2005/8 - Save Workspace (dock window locations)?

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Hi everyone,

 

Does anyone know of an add-in (freeware/shareware or commercial) that allows me to save different workspace configurations for VS/net 2005 or 2008? By that I mean be able to save multiple configuration of which dockable windows are open and where they are on screen, similar to the workspace feature that Photoshop has.

 

On my main development machine in the office, I have a three monitor setup, so I have most of the popular VS.net dockable windows on the left monitor (such as properties, solution explorer, pending checkins etc), the main center monitor has the vs.net IDE - which consists of pretty much just the code window/ide designer and the right monitor has a few other dockable windows such as the immediate and output windows.

 

This works really well for me, and lets me be pretty productive.

 

The problem comes when I'm working from home, which I do quite a bit. I VPN into my company and use remote desktop to work on my main machine. However, RDP only allows access to a single remote desktop, so when I log into my machine, I get the main vs.net window, but none of the property windows show, because on the real machine they're not on the main monitor.

I have to go to window>reset window layout to get the property windows to appear on the main screen and of course the next day when I go into the office, then I have to manually repoistion all the windows again, which is really annoying.

 

Photoshop has a neat feature that it allows you to save different 'workspaces' where it remembers which property windows are open and where they are positioned and by having multiple workspaces saved, you can quickly switch them.

 

If I could do this with vs.net, then I could have two workspaces saved 'main workspace' with my 3 monitor config and 'remote logon' workspace with the property windows and ide all together on the single monitor.

 

I seem to remember that there was a powertoy for the vs.net 2003 version but I've not seen anything for 2005 or 2008. Does anyone know of anything? I'm frankly suprised that Microsoft haven't put this into the core product by now (unless it is there, but I'm not seeing it?)

 

Thanks everyone,

Richard.

 

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