Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Pinning

Pinning refers to the process of making a window stick in the open position. It is called pinning in reference to the visual cue you use to perform the act: a pushpin (refer to the highlighted area of the Solution Explorer title bar in Figure 2.26). Pinning is imperative because you sometimes want full-screen real estate for writing code or designing a form. In this case, you should unpin (hide) the various extraneous windows in your IDE. Note that when a window is unpinned, a vertical tab represents the window (see the highlighted Toolbox tab in Figure 2.26). Moving the mouse near this tab results in the window unfolding for your use. After you use it, however, it goes back to its hiding spot. Alternatively, you might be working to drop ...