Hey everyone,

Today I was working on a fairly large class and needed to compare two different areas of code. I’m used to using text editors such as notepad++ and sublime where I would normally just open the file multiple times. It turns out that Visual Studio has a similar feature, although it’s admittedly a lot less intuitive:

– Open the file you want to duplicate and make it the active tab (just click on it somewhere)
– Select window from the menu up the top
– Click New Window

This will duplicate your active tab. To place them side by side simply right click on one of them and then select ‘New Vertical Tab Group’.

Thanks to this Stackoverflow post for the solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/772159/522859

Hey everyone,

I was working on a fairly large class in visual studio and having a bit of trouble comparing two different areas within it. Thankfully, StackOverflow knew of a way to make things a lot easier – open the same file twice:

– With the tab you want to duplicate currently active, select Window from the menu
– Click new window
– On the new window, right click and select ‘New Vertical Tab Group’ from the drop down