Tabs Studio Blog (organizing Visual Studio document tabs)

February 18, 2011

Closing tabs to the right

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Sergey Vlasov @ 12:35 pm

Another feature from web browsers that you may be familiar with – a context menu command to close all tabs to the right of the selected tab. You can now have it in Tabs Studio with the new CloseRight add-in:

Close tabs to the right context menu command

Close tabs to the right context menu command

Download link: CloseRight v1.0.0.

February 17, 2011

Tabs Studio v2.2.7 released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:05 pm

Tabs Studio v2.2.7 released: fixed absence of the file save dialog when closing a modified xaml file, fixed TypeInitializationException during debugging when dragging the DataSet Visualizer over tabs.

Download link: Tabs Studio v2.2.7.

Opening a new tab next to the current one

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Sergey Vlasov @ 8:56 pm

Many Internet browsers give you an option to open a new tab next to the current one. If you like this behavior you can now have it in Tabs Studio with the new OpenNext add-in. OpenNext doesn’t have any options and just changes default placement for a new tab from the right end to the right of the active tab.

Download link: OpenNext v1.0.0.

January 27, 2011

Tabs Studio v2.2.5 released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 6:28 am

Tabs Studio v2.2.5 released:

  • Added real tabs preview to the Options dialog.
  • Added the Disable Tabs Studio option.
  • Changed tabs tool window background to match Visual Studio background in VS 2010.
  • Fixed missing stdole.dll exception for some partial VS 2005 and VS 2010 installations.
  • Fixed opening relative files in other directories for solutions with unloaded projects.
  • Fixed assertion violation when changing example paths in Path Grouping options to root or upper directory values.

January 26, 2011

Real tabs preview

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:15 pm

When fine tuning tabs presentation options and grouping rules, it is very convenient to immediately preview results. Current preview facilities are helpful, but don’t fully show how actual document tabs will look, forcing us to save options, look at actual tabs and open the options dialog again. To provide a better experience, I’ve added real tabs preview visible from all option pages and containing a snapshot of actual tabs:

Real tabs preview

Real tabs preview


All presentation and grouping options are immediately reflected in the preview. To maximize effect, for the Stack layout preview goes to the right:
Stack layout preview on the right

Stack layout preview on the right


Document path tooltips are now available in a preview to provide necessary information while setting path grouping rules:
Document path tooltips in a preview

Document path tooltips in a preview


In VS 2010 the background for tabs preview now matches the background of Visual Studio environment, making transparent tabs (like those provided by Jameel Al-Aziz’s Visual Studio 2010 theme) look natural in the preview:
Transparent tabs preview on the system background color

Transparent tabs preview on the system background color

Disabling Tabs Studio

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 5:59 pm

Tabs Studio supports several IDEs (VS 2010/2008/2005, SSMS 2008/2005, VS LightSwitch and PowerBuilder .NET 12.0), so you may want to revert to default tabs in some of these products. Usually you can disable Tabs Studio going to host’s Add-in Manager dialog, but not in SQL Server Management Studio. Specifically for SSMS that lacks built-in Add-in Manager, I’ve added the new option to disable Tabs Studio:

Disable Tabs Studio option

Disable Tabs Studio option


When checked, Tabs Studio tabs are not visible, but Tabs Studio toolbar is still available and you can enable Tabs Studio back if needed.

December 2, 2010

Tabs Studio v2.2.3 released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:54 am

Tabs Studio v2.2.3 released: added the explicit Group files from completely different directories option, changed the spilt preview to the grouping preview in Title grouping options, improved solution scanning performance looking for corresponding files, refined Title grouping and Path grouping pages.

November 29, 2010

Tabs Studio v2.2.1 released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 10:03 pm

Tabs Studio v2.2.1 released:

  • Added the Check for product updates on startup option.
  • Added support for solution folders when looking for corresponding files.
  • Changed extensions sorting to place extensions without a dot at the end.
  • Changed the Don’t group designer files regex snippet to include more files.
  • Fixed incorrect installation when VS uses the Visual Studio 10 folder instead of Visual Studio 2010.

November 27, 2010

Automatic updates

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 2:38 pm

I’ve added the Check for product updates on startup option:

The check for updates option

The check for updates option


It is off by default. When enabled, once a day at startup Tabs Studio checks the update.xml file. On a new public release (that occurs about once a month) you will be able to easily see what’s new and download the installer:
Tabs Studio Update

Tabs Studio Update

November 19, 2010

Tabs Studio v2.2.0 released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:20 pm

Tabs Studio v2.2.0 released:

  • Added the ability to customize the style from add-ins.
  • Added default styles to SingleRow and Shaper.
  • Added SingleRow and AvalonStyleEditor to the Tabs Studio installer.
  • Added sample snippets and the ability to revert to default for title and path grouping regular expressions.
  • Added a warning message to SingleRow when the tabs layout mode is not Wrap.
  • Added the 1 second delay before activating a tab when dragging a text over its header.
  • Updated system requirements to have .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.
  • Changed numeric color values to color names in the new tab coloring rule template.
  • Fixed Disambiguator not working with the Remove path from tab name option.
  • Fixed an installation for SSMS when Visual Studio is not installed.
  • Fixed a rare unhandled exception when closing tabs introduced in v2.1.7.
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