In my web browser (Google Chrome), after a tab is closed, I can re-open it with the menu item 'reopen closed tab'. (Firefox has this feature too, 'undo close tab'.)
How can I do undo closing a tab in Visual Studio 2012?
I found this similar question from 2009, but the accepted answer doesn't work for Visual Studio 2012. Reopen last closed tab in Visual Studio
The Productivity Power Tools extension has the Undo Close functionality. Some of the older extensions designed for VS2010 may not work correctly in VS2012, also quite a lot of functionality from these extensions has been incorporated in VS2012.
In Visual Studio 2012/2013, use CTRL+SHIFT+Z to undo close.
Did you tried with the 2010 version of PowerCommands ?
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e5f41ad9-4edc-4912-bca3-91147db95b99/
http://www.patridgedev.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/UndoCloseSettings.png
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I recently started to work with visual studio 2017. I am looking for making visual studio 2017 to auto-save after delay as what vscode does. Is there any way to achieve that?
Not exactly what you ask for, but Visual Studio has AutoRecover feature that can restore unsaved changes in case of a crash.
You can also auto save files when Visual Studio loses focus.
When I open the VS2010 I cannot open any menu options.
try to open Visual Studio in Compabilty Mode.
i didn't experience any issue with it so far.
what are the reason behind using visual studio 2010 on windows 8 RP?
visual studio 2012 should be sufficient except that is might still have some bug.
Curiously the VS2010 is working accordingly in Windows 8. I´ve not done nothing to correct this.
i've created binding for Visual Studio's Edit.BriefBookmarkDropx commands:
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop1: Ctrl+Shift+1
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop2: Ctrl+Shift+2
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop3: Ctrl+Shift+3
...
Edit.BriefBookmarkDrop9: Ctrl+Shift+9
Using Tools -> Options -> Keyboard:
Except that when i hit Ctrl+Shift+2, nothing happens:
i know Microsoft likes to obfuscate Visual Studio features. What's the secret trick that i'm missing?
Note: i am installed DPack into Visual Studio Professional - an addon that provides brief bookmarks (and a number of other essential features). Do not confuse this for an answer to my question:
you cannot install addons into Visual Studio Express
you cannot install addons into the Visual Studio Shell
my question isn't about addons
Bonus Reading
MSDN: How to: Use Bookmarks with Brief Emulation (Visual Studio 2008)
Numbered Bookmarks addon for Visual Studio 2005
DPak Numbered Bookmarks
It took four years, but i figured it out. Everything i was doing was correct. The only issue is that Visual Studio is stupid. Here's how to configure Visual Studio to drop a Brief bookmark:
How's that different from what i showed in the question?
Fails Use new shortcut in: Global
Works Use new shortcut in: Text Editor
By default any keys you bind in the Global space do nothing.
Which begs the question why the option is there, and the default? But usability is not something Visual Studio team prides itself on.
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,...
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
Tabs Studio document tabs manager add-in (developed by me) supports VS 2010+ and VS 2008.
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
In Visual Studio 2010 you can drag tabs out to separate windows but you can not collect them together as additional tabbed elements. Is there a VS 2010 add-on to allow you to group your extra windows into tabs? It would be really nice to have a set of tabs on each of my monitors.
The best place to look is the Visual Studio Gallery for 2010 Extensions. If you are lucky someone else has already had the idea and created an extension (VSIX) for you.
Otherwise, why do you have a go at writing it yourself by grabbing a copy of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK and read the Getting Started Guide.
UPDATE: I just stumbled on this awesome Visual Studio Extension that may do want you are looking for: Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef
Productivity Power Tools does it, and it's free. The feature is called Document Well.