Tabs Studio Blog (organizing Visual Studio document tabs)

I’ve added the ability to conveniently open corresponding files. For example, having stdafx.h opened you can now quickly open stdafx.cpp and vice versa. It works for all combinable extensions that Tabs Studio supports.

Open corresponding file command was added to the top of the tab’s context menu:

Open corresponding file command in context menu

There could be multiple corresponding files to select from:

Multiple corresponding files

TabsStudio.Connect.OpenCorrespondingFile Visual Studio command was also added to be available for keyboard binding. This command looks for all available corresponding files relevant to the currently selected tab and opens first one from the list. If all corresponding files are already opened, OpenCorrespondingFile activates next extension as NextTabExtension command does. Having standard h/cpp pair this behavior allows you to hit OpenCorrespondingFile shortcut and get to a corresponding file no matter if it is currently opened or not.

There was a problem downloading Tabs Studio installer using Internet Explorer – IE changed vsi extension to zip. It is fixed now.

Visual Studio supports horizontal and vertical tab groups and Tabs Studio now backs it up too. When you have two or more tabs open, use Visual Studio’s Window menu to create a new group:

New Horizontal/Vertical Tab Group commands

You can have as much groups as you want, but you can’t mix horizontal and vertical groups:

Three vertical tab groups

Two horizontal tab groups

IsGroupSelected property is added to all Tabs Studio controls to style inactive group. Default style sets text opacity for not selected group to 60%.

To move tabs between groups use Move to Next/Previous Tab Group tab context menu commands:

Move to Next/Previous Tab Group context menu commands