Visual Studio's default view is a cheap assumption on Microsoft's part: that you'll want to see every damn bell and whistle they can throw at you. All of the developers I know who live in the thing daily tweak the hell out of it. Hell, I'm not even a developer, and ~I~ tweaked the hell out of it. That big toolbox on the left? I never use that. The window across the bottom? I never use that. The project browser on the right? Yeah, I need that, but all of the rest of the screen real estate needs to go to code, especially when I'm poring over four-page SQL statements, looking for the hidden meaning.
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