Visual Studio Auto-hide

[JohnOne 1,587]

There is an aspect of visual studio that is annoying me somewhat.

The ability to auto-hide tabs like solution explorer, toolbox and properties is great, but when working on the form designer, the auto-hide is a real pain, in that each time you select a different item on the form it hides the tab. It's quite counter productive.

My question is, does anyone know of a way to prevent auto-hide while form design tab is open, or only hide when I click outside of the actual form would be ace?

I don't want to set it to not auto-hide each time I'm working on the form.

Edited January 30, 2016 by JohnOne