Ah, I misunderstood, I thought you meant “long” and not “wide”. Yeah, that is a problem with portrait view. I had to jack up the font because ClearType looks jacked up in portrait.

Is it really?

An experiment. Scroll the text down, making “public class MappingEngine(…” go out of sight. Now the constructor suddenly becomes too big, still containing 2 lines of code.

>> My solution explorer is there, but I detached it and put it on the next monitor

And yet you still can’t see full line length.

Fixed-width fonts are from DOS era, give Candara a try (or whatever ‘normal’ font suits you best).

I bumped the font up cause it was hurting my eyes at the smaller size, but only when the screen tilted vertically. I think it’s because ClearType doesn’t work as well with that orientation.

My solution explorer is there, but I detached it and put it on the next monitor, along with the output window. When I want to know where I am, Shift+Alt+L gets me there. But honestly, I use Ctrl+E and Ctrl+N and Ctrl+Shift+N far more than picking up my mouse to navigate folders. It’s just slower that way.

And if the beginning of your method is out of view…your method is too big

And then you say you need to make code bigger because it’s large 24 inch screen?

You know, it doesn’t sound too convincing.

I mean I care about amount of code, I do turn my display in vertical position. But I don’t set the font deliberately large and wide, so that I don’t have to switch off Solution Explorer.

You know, Candara or Georgia are far better for reading than Consolas. And they take maybe 70% of its width for the same height. Your screenshot shows that annoying new Dictionary

I mean it must be dependent on project size, but with any meaningful project you’d get 100-150 files, so you usually want to see whole picture and the current position in a project alongside the current editor.

Switching the class/member dropdowns off is not an obvious move either. When the beginning of your method is out of view it’s quite useful feature. Or for nested classes.

Resharper is just a religious debate, so I better not start arguing on that.

I noticed in your screen cap, you still have the top menu bar (with control box, icon, min, max, restore buttons), try this out for size, CTRL+ALT+ENTER and I think you’ll be impressed to have juuuuust a bit more screen real estate!

You’ll probably have to redo your window placements but you can easily flip back’n'forth, and that placement is separate from debugging your apps. And VS will use the last one you used the next time you restart.

It also has a new extensibility model that makes it easier to add your own code to the IDE. Right now it’s mostly concentrated on extending the editor. They are working on making more managed libraries to wrap the COM parts of VS.

VS2010 is the first step in a very major overhaul of Visual Studio. The move to WPF will be nearly complete with 2010 but as it always goes with MS, the major update gets none of the wizzbang stuff, that comes in the next revision . See win 95 to 98, or win2k to xp, vista to 7.

As for commands that have no keyboard shortcuts but have toolbar buttons, you can already go into the settings and set up your own keyboard shortcuts for those commands. Beyond that you can do macros and bind them to keyboard shortcuts as well.