Tabs Studio Blog (organizing Visual Studio document tabs)

March 5, 2010

Tabs Studio v1.9.0 is released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 12:55 pm

Tabs Studio v1.9.0 public is released – comparing to v1.8.5: fixed inability to display identical extensions in a tab group, removed unnecessary access to Visual Studio documents on tabs update.

Reminder for those upgrading from v1.8.0: previous versions of Navigator, Saver and Sorter add-ins don’t work with Tabs Studio v1.8.3 and greater. Here are the updated versions: Navigator v1.0.1, Saver v1.0.1, Sorter v1.0.2.

February 19, 2010

Tabs Studio v1.8.5 is released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 10:25 pm

Tabs Studio v1.8.5 is released – fixed the Remove path from tab name option for SSMS broken in v1.8.2, changed installer to leave disabled Tabs Studio state in SSMS on upgrade, fixed 2 pixels tabs overflow over a code window in SSMS, fixed occasional 1 pixel dark line under the tabs.

February 18, 2010

Localizer add-in

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:05 am

I’ve prepared two tab context menu translations for German and Spanish localized Visual Studio editions:

Localized context menu in German Visual Studio 2008

Localized context menu in German Visual Studio 2008


Feel free to correct my translation and update it with other languages. To add a new language just copy an existing .resx and provide translated string values:
Localizer project

Localizer project


Download Localizer v1.0.0

February 15, 2010

Tabs Studio v1.8.3 is released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 12:55 pm

Tabs Studio v1.8.3 is released – added two additional tabs layouts: Wrap and Stack.

Previous versions of Navigator, Saver and Sorter add-ins don’t work with Tabs Studio v1.8.3. Here are the updated versions: Navigator v1.0.1, Saver v1.0.1, Sorter v1.0.2.

Additional tabs layouts

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 12:02 pm

I’ve added two additional tabs layouts – Wrap and Stack:

Tabs layout option

Tabs layout option


Standard layout is the way it worked before:
Standard layout

Standard layout


Wrap layout retains original tab width and doesn’t try to distribute tabs between rows evenly:
Wrap layout

Wrap layout


Stack layout places tabs in a single vertical stack and should be useful when having a separate tabs window on a side of a code window:
Stack layout

Stack layout


The System.Windows.Controls.Panel TabPanel2 property was added to the TabsStudioExt.Tabs class replacing the System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.TabPanel TabPanel property. TabPanel is still present to prevent add-ins that use it from crashing at startup, but always returns an empty panel. I’ve updated Navigator, Saver and Sorter add-ins to use the new TabPanel2 property.

February 12, 2010

Tabs Studio v1.8.2 is released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 1:08 pm

Tabs Studio v1.8.2 is released:

  • Added the Group titles ignoring case differences option.
  • Added Title grouping regex processing to single titles.
  • Changed default Title grouping regex and remove path transform to support a path with back slashes.
  • Separated remove path transforms for VS and SSMS internally.
  • Improved the first Tabs window reliability to save and restore its position.
  • Fixed rare code window shift when using tabs in a separate window.
  • Fixed Open Corresponding File error to open .h files on non-English VS editions by removing workaround to open Windows Forms .h files from .h [Design].
  • Fixed the incorrect package name in the Visual Studio 2010 About window for the Tabs Studio 2010 Helper extension.

February 11, 2010

Grouping titles ignoring case differences

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:54 pm

Since the beginning, Tabs Studio didn’t group e.g. WebDataService.cs and WebdataService.svc because of the case difference. It was my conscious decision to indicate an inconsistence and prompt a developer to fix it. But now I think there is no harm to provide an option and give you full control of this behavior:

Group titles ignoring case differences option

Group titles ignoring case differences option

February 10, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 RC

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Sergey Vlasov @ 10:37 am

This week Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was released:

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC


I don’t see any changes in default tab behavior comparing to Beta 2 in this release. I’ve tested Tabs Studio v1.8.0 with Professional, Premium and Ultimate 2010 RC editions and everything worked as good as in Beta 2. Interestingly, the Load per user extensions when running as administrator VS option is now on by default.

Tab names in a database project

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:28 am

Visual Studio has a special project type – Database Project. Tab names in such project include a path with back slashes:

A Visual Studio database project

A Visual Studio database project


To support back slashes I’ve changed the default Title grouping regex to (?<Name>(.*[/\\])?.+?)(?<Ext>\..+) and I’ve changed the default remove path transform to ^(.*[/\\\\])?(.*)$. With these changes selecting the Remove path from tab name option successfully removes paths:
Paths removed

Paths removed


It would be nice to remove trailing Project1 as well. (?<Name>(.*[/\\])?.+?)(?<Ext>\..+) \(Project1\) helps, but only for grouped titles like Script1. I’ve made additional changes in Tabs Studio and now single titles are affected by Title grouping regex too:
Project1 removed

Project1 removed


For more advanced title customization there is TitleTransform available in add-ins.

February 7, 2010

Decorator update

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Sergey Vlasov @ 8:48 pm

Decorator add-in v1.0.0 was found guilty in disrupting Visual Studio operations, even causing a crash. It too often looked for a project associated with a window, particularly disrupting when the window was already closed.

I’ve added a dictionary to store a project for a tab. Now the project is searched in Visual Studio only once when the tab is created. You may also notice in source code how I use tab.TabItem for tab identity – this is because TabsStudioExt.Tab objects are created at will and only WPF controls and DTE objects are stable enough for identity purposes.

Download Decorator v1.0.1.

Older Posts »

Blog at WordPress.com.