Pinning
Pinning refers to the process of making a window stick in the open position. It is called pinning in reference to the visual cue you use to perform the act: a pushpin. Pinning is a key concept because you sometimes want full-screen real estate for writing code or designing a form. In this case, you should unpin (auto hide) the various extraneous windows in your IDE. Figure 2.30 shows the mouse cursor over the pin of the Solution Explorer window. Note that this window is currently pinned open. You would push this pin to unpin the window.
FIGURE 2.30 Pinning and unpinning windows in the IDE.
An unpinned window slides the window closed ...
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