Exception window "View Detail" with no maximize function!!!

Could somebody please explain why the "View Detail" exception window (when you get an exception in debug mode and you click View Detail") does not have a maximize option/button, but instead you have to maximize it by dragging its edges

On the other hand a "QuickWatch" window has a maximize function to it. I hope that the reason is not that QuickWatch is an application window and ViewDetail is not.

Also at the moment i believe that if you added the time spent by all the programmers that ever manually dragged edges to maximize a View Detail window in Visual Studios you would get...a heart attack...so don't do it! :) Hopefully after i get an answer to this question i won't believe that any more.



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Exception window "View Detail" with no maximize function!!!

  • renealejandrov

    The maximize button was removed to make it consistant with UI guide line for dialogs in VS. A dialog need a help button on the title bar to bring F1 help page. For some reasons, that button could not be shown, when the maximize button is turned on.

    However, it is a known issue. In Orcas Beta1, the "view detail" window will remember it's last size. That should prevent you to resize it constantly.

    Thanks



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