Last night Steve asked if you could change the docked and embedded Delphi 2007 IDE to look like Delphi 7 and earlier where everything is undocked and the designer is not embedded in the same window as the code. This is especially nice if you have multiple monitors! I couldn't remember how to do this at the time. Nick Hodges, the Delphi Product Manager at CodeGear, just made a great video showing how to undock and unembed the IDE so it looks more like Delphi 7 and earlier.
The video only takes about 2 minutes and is part of his 2 minute tutorial series.
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For the record, you CANNOT have a docked IDE with an unembedded form designer. If you skip the step he includes of switching to undocked, and just uncheck the Embedded Form designer option it switches you to undocked automatically.
Here is what to do, if you don't want to watch the video:
In the Delphi 2007 IDE go to Tools / Options, which brings up the Options dialog. From there go to Environment Options / VCL Designer in the tree on the left. Then in the Options box on the right uncheck the Embedded designer check box. Restart the IDE and you are reliving the good old days!
Lets see you do that in Visual Studio! Multi-monitors is a huge performance improvement, so anything that takes better advantage of that is a great thing.
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