A utility to save and restore window positions on a Windows Desktop.
On the Windows Desktop that you wish to manage:
Download and unzip WinLayout-UI.zip and run the WinLayout-UI.exe file. Click the Save button to record the current window locations. Click the Restore button to
restore the saved window locations.
With the laptop running on the docking station, and application windows in their desired locations, download winLayout.exe run the command:
winlayout save
Then the next time the laptop is plugged into the docking station, the window locations of the running applications can be restored by the command:
winlayout restore
For convenience, make a windows short cut to the file winlayout.exe (with the desired parameter) and pin to the task bar for easy access.
Install .Net 5 SDK onto the developer machine.
In the folder, in a cmd shell, run the commands
cd <folder containing winlayout.csproj>
dotnet build
dotnet publish -r win10-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true
Install .Net 5 SDK onto the developer machine.
In the folder, in a cmd shell, run the commands
cd <folder containing winlayout-ui.csproj>
dotnet build
dotnet publish -r win10-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true
If some windows do not change position when a restore is performed, it might be that these windows are running under Administrator privilege. In this case, run winlayout restore as Administrator and they will move. Visual Studio is commonly affected in this way. Similarly for the Winforms App .exe.