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Managing Code Windows and Designers

When you're writing code, it's always nice to see the form you're working on and the code window at the same time, or even the help file and the code window at the same time. With a tabbed document interface, this might not seem possible. But if you click the Windows menu, you'll notice several options for splitting the screen and creating new tab groups. To view as much information at once as possible, you can select New Horizontal Tab Group or New Vertical Tab Group from the Window menu. This splits the main window either vertically or horizontally, giving you a better view of what you're working on.

Figure 2.23 shows the Forms Designer and the Code Editor split into two separate windows. Of course, the screen resolution at 800x600 makes this unusable to a degree, but at a higher resolution, you can have all your forms, code editors, and help files open at once and still have plenty of room to work.

If there were controls on Form1 in design mode, the Code Editor would dynamically change based on the items you select.