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There are some things about Visual Studio 2008 that annoy me. One of the worst ones is when you'll be typing away in code view on an asp.net page and the Error List bounces up and down. The cause of this is the page validator you have set and when it finds a asp.net control or HTML control or a css class that it can't find or is not valid it pops up the Error List. Also when using Themes the IDE in code view doesn't seam to see the style sheets you have. So when typing away setting the Id of a label control or something the Error List jumps up and down when you arrow or mouse away form what you were just typing.  I hope this makes sense. I have looked for a solution and found some people just disabling the validator. Hiding the Error List does nothing because it keeps coming back. So while trying to see what I could do I right clicked on the error list and there it was   an option, that are on a lot of  little windows in the IDE, to set the Error List as a Tabbed Document!

I can handle that being a tab with the rest of my documents. So no more bouncy Error List to get in the way or annoy me. And If I need to look at the list of errors and warning I just click on the tab.

I know this isn't all that exciting but it helps me concentrate on the programming and not watching the Error List flash on the screen.

Sometimes it's the little things in life that makes us happy.

JefferyS