Visual Studio Tips and tricks: Undock/Re-dock a tool window

The layout of Visual Studio is very flexible. You can dock the tool windows you use the most at the location you prefer. Sometimes, you want to undock it for instance to move it to another display. Sometimes, you also undock a tool window by error 😦. When you want to dock the window where it was before, it can be complicated by dragging the window. There is a very quick way to dock the window at the same location as it was before undocking it. Press Ctrl and double-click on the title of the window:

This post is part of the series 'Visual Studio Tips and Tricks'. Be sure to check out the rest of the blog posts of the series!

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