Reminder: Visual Studio 2015 allows you to save your window layouts and recall them later

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I was today talking to a fellow Microsoft developer, and the talk turned to multiple monitors and laptop docking stations. My fellow converser talked about the issues he's seen with his setup, and lamented the fact that tool windows often need to be repositioned when changing resolutions and/or removing monitors from the setup.

I pointed out that a feature for managing, saving and retrieving window layouts is in fact part of Visual Studio 2015. For some reason, he had missed this new feature available through the Window menu, even though this feature has been available since CTP2.

This serves as a reminder that products large as Visual Studio, it's easy to miss new features, even if they are (almost) in the front of your eyes. But I'm not surprised: hands up anyone, who has actually accessed the Window menu of Visual Studio in the past year?

That doesn't happen very often.