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January 31, 2010
January 28, 2010
Tabs Studio v1.7.12 is released
Tabs Studio v1.7.12 is released – added Tabs Studio toolbar (except in VS 2010), renamed the Settings command to Options, fixed unhandled exception when opening context menu in a solution with unrecognized projects, fixed windows shift when switching from tabs in a separate window to normal tabs, disabled separate window tabs checkbox in VS 2010.
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January 27, 2010
Tabs Studio toolbar
I’ve created the default toolbar for Tabs Studio that includes Options, Add-in manager, Previously selected tab, Open corresponding file, Tabs window and About commands:
Tabs Studio toolbar in Visual Studio 2008
This toolbar is also available in SSMS (though you need to manually make it visible):
Tabs Studio toolbar in SSMS 2008
I plan to make the toolbar available in Visual Studio 2010 closer to its release date.
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January 23, 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Silver theme
This month Matthew Johnson released the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension for Visual Studio 2010. This extension allows users to customize colors used by Visual Studio 2010 and contains three example themes (Autumn, Emerald and Silver):
Default Visual Studio 2010 theme
Visual Studio 2010 Silver theme
Jameel Al-Aziz, in addition to his Tabs Studio 2010 style, has created Tabs Studio 2010 Silver theme style:
Tabs Studio 2010 Silver theme style
Get Tabs Studio 2010 Silver theme style by Jameel Al-Aziz (Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Tabs Studio v1.7.6 or greater required).
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January 8, 2010
Tabs Studio v1.7.11 is released
Tabs Studio v1.7.11 is released – added the Show tabs in a separate window option.
Tabs in a separate window
I’ve added a new option to show tabs in a separate window:
Show tabs in a separate window option
The separate window is a Visual Studio tool window that you can dock or float any place you like:
Tabs window on the right of code window
You set up tabs window width and height, Tabs Studio fits tabs into available width. Tabs window placement is saved by Visual Studio as for all other tool windows. If you have several tab groups, several tabs windows are opened.
I’ve also added the TabsStudio.Connect.ShowTabsWindow command in case you (accidentally) have closed the window. You can add this command to the Visual Studio View menu for example:
The show tabs window command added to VS View menu
The Show tabs in a separate window option is currently not supported in MDI mode and in VS 2010.
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January 4, 2010
Tabs Studio v1.7.10 is released
Tabs Studio v1.7.10 is released – added the Maximum number of tabs in a group option, changed empty tab grouping regex options to mean “disable tab grouping”, fixed rare unhandled exception in SSMS query designer.
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Maximum number of tabs in a group
In SSMS sometimes you can get 10 or even more tabs in one group. A group like this takes lot of space and can be hard to manage. I’ve added the Maximum number of tabs in a group option that breaks extra large groups:
Maximum number of tabs in a group option
Default value is 7. For example, 9 SQL queries are now organized in two groups instead of a large one:
SQL query tabs organized in two groups
Setting the Maximum number of tabs in a group option to 0 allows any number of tabs to be combined in one group.
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January 2, 2010
Tab text options in SSMS
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 has several built in tab text options:
Tab text options in SSMS 2008
You can shorten tabs by omitting parts like server name or login name – SQLQuery1.sql was created with default settings, SQLQuery3.sql was created with database, login and server names off. These options don’t exist in SSMS 2005.
Tabs Studio Blog (organizing Visual Studio document tabs) 