No. I use 4... Both at home and at the office. All my monitors are 17" running 1280x1024. I've tried multiple configurations, including multiple wide screens. The 17's work best for me as I like to sit somewhat close to my desktop. I like the standard viewports instead of the wide screen because I can go full screen with a window without having a ton of wasted space. going from left to right, here is how my monitors are utilized: 1. SQL Server Manager, SQL Profiler, documentation views. This is the mode for development. When it debugging mode, this is where the running application lives. 2. Visual studio 2008 Code / Designer Window. Full screen. I don't use sliding tool bars/menus. One monitor is dedicated to pure code. 3. Visual Studio menus and tool bars. This is where solution explorer lives, properties, tool box, etc, etc, etc. All of the items that are necessary to Visual Studio, but clutter my view of code, get undocked and moved here. It is very nice to have solution explorer and properties view extend from the top of the monitor to the bottom, readily available. When in debug mode, this monitor fills with call stack, immediate window, output, watch window, etc, etc. So all of my debugging tools are right there at my finger tips. I can step through my code on monitor 2, watch how the application behaves on monitor 1, and view watches and call stack on monitor 3.. all without having to .. friggin alt-tab (shudder). This is also the monitor where VM's and Remote Desktops live. 4. This monitor is dedicated to outlook. It is also where the web browser lives, documentation, IM, etc, etc, etc. It's the scratch window that allows me to keep things somewhat important, but still in peripheral vision. Some Visuals: My Office Workstation: http://www.clanmonroe.com/blogimages/Office_Workstation.jpg[^] My Home Workstation: http://www.clanmonroe.com/blogimages/jdesk2.jpg[^]
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