07.11 Ordering and Multicolumn Sorting in Tool Windows

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2005, 2008, 2010

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vstipTool0021

When working with the various tool windows, you often need the ability to rearrange the information in different ways. With column ordering and column sorting, you have this ability.

Column Ordering

This technique can be used in a variety of tool windows, most notably the Task List window. Let’s begin with reordering the columns. In tool windows where this is supported, you can drag the columns around to put them in the order you want:

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Additionally, you can sort by clicking on a column to make it sort ascending or descending, as shown in the following ...

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