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Can't resize the columns in assembly selector grid

In the dialog to choose the assemblies to debug I can only resize the 'Assemblies' column.

Is there a reason why I can't resize the 'Path' column? Resizing the 'Select All' and 'Version' columns would be mostly pointless.

Build 6.0.0.699
rich257
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  • Alex D
    Mm, I was worried the interaction was a bit odd at the time, but my intention was that you can either increase the window, or decrease the assembly name column, to get the path column bigger. I wanted to avoid scrollbars ever coming up.

    How do you think it should behave?

    Thanks,
    Alex D
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  • rich257
    I can now see you were trying to avoid a horizontal scroll. At the moment I have to increase the window size and then because the column widths scale with that I have to reduce the width of the Assembly column too, so that's two actions.

    I see you can only sort by Assembly or Path, not the other columns. I'm not a huge fan of grids because I think they look ugly, always, however they are useful because of the sorting.

    How about just having the two columns, the tick and the rest, and sort the rest on assembly name, putting the path underneath on a newline in the same row? Then there might be enough room to see the path anyway.

    Text mock up: 
    --------------------------------
X   mscorlib (2.0.0.0)
     C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_32\mscorlib\etc.
---------------------------------
X  nunit.framework (2.4.8.0)
    C:\Projects\Development\.....
----------------------------------

    I notice in VS2010 the new project dialog has a sort control above the list. Perhaps you could use this idea to switch between 'sort by path' and 'sort by assembly name'. I'm guessing sorting by anything other than assembly name would be uncommon.

    Just some ideas...
    rich257
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