Comment by kooshball

> I like Visual Studio, but I feel more and more it gets in my way when I'm debugging/navigating code. There is too much "chrome"/widgets/toolbars and hundreds of specialized windows, each with their own chrome that eat up precious space on my 27" monitor.

Chrome eat up space on a 27" monitor? Not sure if you're actually being serious here since a 27" monitor probably has 2560x1440 resolution which is gigantic compared to the chrome. Furthermore, you can customize the UI to disable every toolbar manually. Or in VS2010, there is a full screen mode where it hides all the toolbars from every side, and shows a basic text editor. That's probably what you want.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/07/17/full-scre...