Dual Monitor
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Just wondering if dual monitor (bigger screen space) will make using Visual Studio feels better? Most people said it is great for Photoshop. Not so much for programming/IDE. Like to hear your experience. Cheers.
Yes! I have VS open on one monitor and spec, MSDN, etc. open on the second. It makes life so much easier. ColinMackay.net "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucius "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
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Dual, shmual.[^] And yes, great for programming. IDE, MSDN, Google, CodeProject. As is multiple dev systems: seperate client/server dev, separate webserver, etc. Marc Pensieve
I run 3 lcd's. My preference is to have my current app jump to the left screen so I can see what it was doing as I hit a breakpoint (no more white screen leaving you guessing what was going on at that point), my main monitor holds the ide so I can see the code at that point, and the right-hand one usually holds the webpage I'm referencing. It costs a bit more to get set up, but it is sooo worth it.
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Just wondering if dual monitor (bigger screen space) will make using Visual Studio feels better? Most people said it is great for Photoshop. Not so much for programming/IDE. Like to hear your experience. Cheers.
Yes, it does. If ever you come across a laptop with twin built in displays, please let me know. I'm feeling kinda claustrophobic on here...:doh: Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Just wondering if dual monitor (bigger screen space) will make using Visual Studio feels better? Most people said it is great for Photoshop. Not so much for programming/IDE. Like to hear your experience. Cheers.
Yes its better, and it would be even better still is Visual Studio was designed to take advantage off multimple monitors e.g. a MTL MDI, which is an two or more MDI frames, maximised on each screen, with the ability to drag and drop documents between them to rearrange the code you are looking at. Either way, 2 monitors works nicely when debugging. Debugger in one window, app in the other. Actually, put simply, the more monitors the better. We use up to six here at work, and I have two at home. Two is the minimum I would want to work with.
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E J wrote:
Just wondering if dual monitor (bigger screen space) will make using Visual Studio feels better? Most people said it is great for Photoshop. Not so much for programming/IDE.
Yep, everyone I know who have used dual monitors have strongly insisted that it has tremendously helped their productivity, and that they couldn't imagine going back to single. And some guys like David Wulff use triple LCDs at work! Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
some guys like David Wulff use triple LCDs at work!
If I had a bigger desk I would get another one - I still have one DVI port free... :cool:
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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Are they all connected to the same machine? :omg:
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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Are they all connected to the same machine? :omg:
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
David Wulff wrote:
Are they all connected to the same machine?
No, actually three, using Synergy to control them all. One keyboard to rule them all, etc... Marc Pensieve
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I stand corrected. :)
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David Wulff wrote:
Are they all connected to the same machine?
No, actually three, using Synergy to control them all. One keyboard to rule them all, etc... Marc Pensieve
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I'm in that group. Once you get 3 you'll never go back. I'm planning on adding number 4 before to long. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!:-D
I only read CP for the articles. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
> Once you get 3 you'll never go back. This is where I've personally drawn the line. I've never used my 4th monitor. Well, technically speaking, it's still hooked up to my projector--at least now I don't have to constantly swap cables around. My cheap-ass-10-year-old-found-in-a-dumpster ATI Xpert 128 is good enough to drive that and not much else. Anyone know of a tuner card that will work when configured as something *other* than primary display?
