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I believe the question says it all.

Motivation: I often need to look at two pieces of code with eclipse. Since there is only on active graph at any given time I have to click between them, very similar to having a single monitor.

I usually have research on my other screen, it would be amazing to able to pull separate files across like tabs in chrome, ideally.

Thanks.

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You can display multiple documents side-by-side in eclipse by dragging tabs to the side, top, or bottom of the window. Also, if you right-click a project or folder in Navigator or Package Explorer, there is an option to "Open in New Window", which allows you to view the same workspace in multiple windows. With multiple eclipse windows open you can drag tabs between them. – AndrewC Nov 24 '10 at 17:00
@AndrewC I hate the side by side, shouldn't have to do it when i have two screens. but the open in new window methods is lovely. you are correct. If you rewrite this as an answer. you win! – dustyprogrammer Nov 24 '10 at 17:16
@garbage, it doesn't work very well. You might like it though. – user1249 Nov 24 '10 at 17:21
@Thorbjørn I know but apparently this is the best available, with eclipse anyways. Bit of an overkill when you want to read code in one file and edit in another but still, better than nothing. – dustyprogrammer Nov 24 '10 at 17:24
I like a single ømaximized editor with two files split for this. – user1249 Nov 24 '10 at 20:36
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You can display multiple documents side-by-side in eclipse by dragging tabs to the side, top, or bottom of the window.

Also, if you right-click a project or folder in Navigator or Package Explorer, there is an option to "Open in New Window", which allows you to view the same workspace in multiple windows. With multiple eclipse windows open you can drag tabs between them.

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Visual Studio 2010

As stated by Scott Guthrie :

VS 2010 [allows] editors, designers and tool-windows to be moved outside the top-level window and positioned anywhere you want, and on any monitor on your system. This allows you to significantly improve your use of screen real-estate, and optimize your overall development workflow.

Productivity Power Tools even enhance the multi-monitor support :

Tab Well UI

This extension allows you to completely customize the behaviour of your document tabs from the Productivity Power Tools Options:

  • Floating Tab Wells

    Now you can dock floating document windows on a separate monitor just like tool windows! There’s also an option now which allows you to open documents as floating by default.

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I would say Visual Studio still has room to improve their multi-monitor support, but at least we now have some support - and oh how nice it is to have at least some multi-monitor support. – qes Nov 24 '10 at 17:30
Add some extensions and you get almost everything as floating window. On Windows 7 use Window key + arrows to quickly setup your display. – Klaim Nov 24 '10 at 21:27
I've always wondered if there's a way to do this Windows Key + arrows, but in Ubuntu Linux? – chiurox Nov 25 '10 at 0:30
@Klaim Which extensions do you speak of?? :) – Kurru Jan 6 '11 at 2:45
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@Kurru You can see popular extensions there : visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us Then you'll see the two first are free and provide a lot of useful changes and addition to VS2010 and can be easily tweaked. The one I was talking about is the first : visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/… (see the first feature) – Klaim Jan 6 '11 at 9:29
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