Tabs Studio Blog (organizing Visual Studio document tabs)

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.

February 4, 2010

Tabs Studio v1.8.0 is released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 7:34 pm

Tabs Studio v1.8.0 public is released – comparing to v1.7.12, added Tabs Studio toolbar and commands removal from Visual Studio 2005/2008 on uninstallation.

February 1, 2010

New blog address

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:41 am

I’ve established the new address for this blog – http://blog.tabsstudio.com. Everything else is the same.

January 31, 2010

Tabs Studio on Twitter

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 6:55 pm

I’ve created the Twitter account for Tabs Studio where I plan to write about the lesser details than on this blog.

Follow Tabs Studio on Twitter!

January 28, 2010

Tabs Studio v1.7.12 is released

Filed under: Releases — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:40 pm

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.

January 27, 2010

Tabs Studio toolbar

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sergey Vlasov @ 9:52 pm

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

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

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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