Tabs Studio v1.7.2 is released – updated tab extension style.
October 28, 2009
October 27, 2009
Updated tab extension style
I’ve updated default TabExtension style to ease extension selection. When mouse is over extension it is highlighted with yellow background now, there is no more shadow for extension and there is more padding around tab extension and tab name:
Updated tab extension style
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October 23, 2009
Tabs Studio v1.7.1 is released
Tabs Studio v1.7.1 is released – added Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 support, added automatic registration with SQL Server Management Studio 2005.
Improved text rendering in .NET 4.0 Beta 2
WPF 4.0 introduces new text rendering options. You can customize Tabs Studio text with these new options in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 using a style like this one:
<Style TargetType="TabsStudio:Tabs" BasedOn="{StaticResource DefaultTabsStyle}">
<Setter Property="TextOptions.TextFormattingMode" Value="Display"/>
<Setter Property="TextOptions.TextRenderingMode" Value="Aliased"/>
</Style>
Text with display aliased options
Text with display aliased options 3x zoom
It would be great to make sharper text works in Visual Studio 2008 as well, but right now I don’t see a good solution. Simply installing .NET 4.0 Beta 2 runtime on a Visual Studio 2008 machine doesn’t make these new options available to Tabs Studio automatically.
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October 22, 2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 support
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released this week. The only change I see (comparing to VS window tabs management in 2010 Beta 1) is the new Insert documents to the right of existing tabs option that allows opening tabs on the right:
Insert documents to the right option
I’ve updated Tabs Studio to accommodate some Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 internal changes and I will make it available in the next release:
Tabs Studio in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
As VS 2010 release date is set to March 22, 2010, I’ve extended evaluation period for Tabs Studio 2010 to April 22, 2010.
October 21, 2009
Tabs Studio v1.7.0 is released
Tabs Studio v1.7.0 public is released – no changes comparing to v1.6.5.
October 19, 2009
Tabs Studio v1.6.5 is released
Tabs Studio v1.6.5 is released – redesigned close tab button, added Quick Style builder, added Help link to Options and Add-in Manager, added automatic registration with SSMS, conducted general UI cleanup.
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October 14, 2009
Automatic SSMS registration
I’ve added Tabs Studio registration with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 to the Tabs Studio installer. There will be no need to manually setup and run the .reg file any more.
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Settings help
I’ve added the Online help button to the Tabs Studio Settings dialog. Clicking this button opens documentation for the selected tab:
Online help button in Tabs Studio settings
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October 13, 2009
Quick style
I’ve combined common style templates into the Quick Style dialog:
Quick Style dialog
You can select preferred options and automatically generate corresponding XAML style. This dialog will be available from the Style tab:
Quick style button on Style tab
The Quick Style dialog can’t modify existing style and most useful when customizing Tabs Studio for the first time.
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Tabs Studio Blog (organizing Visual Studio document tabs) 