Multiple watch windows in IVF

[TommyCee]

Hey, can anyone please tell me how to simultaneously open multiple watch windows in IVF?  In my old friend CVF, I could open up to 4 at a time very easily (see attached).  In IVF, I can only find a way to open 1 (one) watch window + a "Quick Watch".  What the deuce?

[Yu__Tao]

Are you using MS Visual Studio ? In Visual Studio, you can add watch windows by the menu DEBUG->Windows->Watch. There is 4 watch windows. By the way, you can add those watch windows only when you start debugging.

[TommyCee]

Yes, I'm using VS2010.  I now do find the way to open the other Watch Windows.  Thanks for your help, Tao.

[TommyCee]

Ahh .. but there seems to be one lingering problem:

In good 'ole CVF, one could have the series of 4 Watch Window tabs docked to the right of the ever-present Locals.  In this way, one can always monitor local vars, and - to the the right - focus on a few key vars.

In VS2010, it appears that that option is unavailable.  You at best get something as in the attached:  a series of Watch Window tabs only one of which can be open at any given time!

A step backwards imho.

[jimdempseyatthecove]

TommyCee,

Grab the Watch Window tab and drag it to wherever you want (you can even have it float). I haven't figured out how to add a tab window to the bottom part of the main VS GUI, but you can make the watch window float, then position it under the main VS GUI (along with three other Watch windows.). Or you can drag it up to one of the code tabs or solution explorer tab.

Jim Dempsey

[TommyCee]

Ah-hah.  What I tried (what you may have been suggesting) is - w/ the cursor only on the Locals tab - dragging it aside to "separate" it from the adjoining 4-tabbed Watch Windows.  Having separated them, I was able to dock them side-by-side, as I enjoyed w/ CVF.  I guess the "crazy" thing was how they all conjoined in the first place.  Anyway, I think I can now manage to have them the way I like.  Thanks Jim.