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jing
jing

Reputation: 2021

Is there any tab manager for visual studio?

It's common for me to have 20+ files opened in Visual Studio (I use VS 2008 now, but we will migrate to VS 2010, soon.). Is there any add-in which could help organize actively opened files?

I mean something like Firefox colorful tabs or a tab-manager which will group windows tabs by projects or folders,...

Upvotes: 10

Views: 14344

Answers (4)

BBoz
BBoz

Reputation: 21

By VS2019, Visual Studio Power Tools no longer seem to offer tab management options. The Tabs Studio plugin is expensive, so I am satisfied with the workaround of going to Tools > Options > Environment > Tabs and Windows, and enabling "Show pinned tabs in a separate row".

Now this gives me two rows of tabs to work with, either of which can be freely re-arranged. I am happy with this cheap alternative - Hope this helps someone else searching about the topic years later.

Upvotes: 0

taylonr
taylonr

Reputation: 10790

Visual Studio Power tools will do it for 2010, out of luck for 2008 (as far as I know).

There are versions of Power tools for all the newer Visual Studios. Newest: VS Power tools 2015

You can have them color coded by assembly, most recently used up front, and several other sorting/grouping options

Upvotes: 13

Sergey Vlasov
Sergey Vlasov

Reputation: 27940

Tabs Studio document tabs manager add-in (developed by me) supports VS 2010+ and VS 2008.

Upvotes: 8

ctrlplusb
ctrlplusb

Reputation: 13147

I like the alternative approach proposed by the 'Tidy Tabs' extension.

Rather than providing you with a mechanism to manage billions of tabs, it helps by automatically monitoring and cleaning up your tabs to only display the ones that you have most recently been using.

It's free too. :)

From the extension page:

Tidy Tabs keeps your document well organized by closing tabs that are no longer being used. Tabs that have not been viewed in a configurable amount of time can be closed with a keyboard shortcut (CTRL+ALT+ESC) or closed automatically whenever you save a document.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b80ab284-83f8-4022-bc78-95af126ba5f0

Upvotes: 6

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