   VS 2008 IDE GUI irritation
  I've recently moved over to VS C++ 2008 Express from 2005 Express, and one thing that I've noticed is that whenever I double click on something in one of the toolbar windows (output window for compile errors, solution explorer, etc) the window will immediately hide. I find this especially irritating because for things like compile errors/warnings, I usually like to take an overview of several of them and then fix them instead of focusing on 1 at a time. Also when opening a source file with the Solution Explorer, I like to open the source and header at the same time, as it's fairly likely that I'll need both.I haven't been able to find an option to turn this off. I've also googled a couple of times with different search terms, but I've got nothing to show for it. Does anyone know of a way to turn this off, or am I the only one irritated by it?   
  I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but do you perhaps have the output window unpinned?  You can pin the pane to have it always open (the little pin icon next to the x in the top right hand corner of the pane).   ;  No, I still want it to auto-close, but not until the mouse cursor has left the window's bounds, like 2005 Express does. I can't seem to find an option for it, and I think 2005 just did it automatically.   ;  Ah sorry looks like I misunderstood, unfortunately I don't know of an option to control that.   ;  Does anyone else know? It's pretty frustrating to double-click on a compiler error to get to the line and then have open the window again to see what the error was.   