I've been using Visual Studio for a long time and the constant shuffling of the code tabs at the top drives me bonkers. I was wondering if there were any add-ins that might change this or other UI behavior.
Things that might be cool:
Sticky Tabs that won't go away.
Multi-code file collapsible tabs (maybe each tab being a project?).
Having the solution tree go to the file you are currently looking at automatically. Thanks Omlette!
Your idea here.
I've done a bit of googling and haven't been able to find anything useful.
The "Having the solution tree go to the file you are currently looking at automatically" feature already exists in VS2008, but isn't enabled by default. Go to tools -> options -> projects and solutions -> general and check the "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer" box.
Rick,
Tabs Studio add-in for Visual Studio is a replacement for built-in tabs. Multiple rows of tabs make them always visible. Tabs can be grouped, it is probably close to what you call "multi-code file tabs".
See Tabs Studio home page for more information.
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I guess I have hundreds opens files in my VS2015 now and it is really a headache to find the one which I need. I remember seeing somebody's VS screen which can pick up some tabs and list them in the left panel of visual studio. Is that a add-on or some configuration is built-in options?
Maybe it was my Task Canvas extension that lets you open several small editor windows as tabs in one panel.
How do you extend Tabs in Visual Studio 2013? It would be handy to extend the Tabs so that you can selectively track an item in Solution Explorer by right clicking on a tab.
By default, Visual Studio will track active items in Solution Explorer via the setting: Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > General > Track Active Item in Solution Explorer.
Having that turned on makes Solution Explorer jump around, and is consequently confusing on large projects, so I turn it off. But, what I'd like to be able to do, is right click on an open tab, and select a menu item to make Solution Explorer track and display that file's location in Solution Explorer. Basically it would be on-demand selective file tracking.
I know hovering over the tab, you can see the file path and locate it that way. What I would like is a quicker shortcut to displaying the file location in Solution Explorer.
If there is a plugin that already does this, please let me know and provide a link. Otherwise, I'd be interested in knowing how to do this myself. Thanks.
There is a button on the Solution Explorer toolbar Sync with Active Document and the corresponding command SolutionExplorer.SyncWithActiveDocument for keyboard binding.
While in debug mode, the solution explorer has a Script Documents section. It is expanded by default. As the debugger runs, new ScriptDocumentxxx poll.txt files are added to this section. As I am navigating the explorer files, the adding of these new line items causes the entire contents of the explorer to shift downward. This is quite annoying if I am trying to find a file or trying to click something. I can collapse the section manually, but I'd rather not have to do this all of the time.
Right click the projects you are interested in working on and click on 'Scope to this'. This will hide everything (Including the scripts folder) except those projects you selected.
I got annoyed enough with this that I turned off JavaScript debugging. If you are willing to go that far, the scripts are gone.
The path for turn of JS debugging is:
Tools -> Options -> Debugging -> General -> Enable JavaScript debugging for ASP.NET (Chrome, Edge and IE) (Visual Studio 2017 and 2019)
Note: This method does not prevent you from stepping though JS in the Chrome inspection tools so you do not lose that ability. You lose both the scripts (of course) and that new Chrome window that pops up when you launch the debugger.
Yes, there is.
IIS Express > Script Debugging > Disabled
Right click then 'Scope to This' to hide everything but the project in the solution you want to view.
Click on the Home/House icon to reverse it.
Yes there is. One way is to create a visual studio add-in or extension which monitors the solution explorer tree and collapses the "script documents" -item if it is expanded.
If you need code samples and/or a fully functional add-in just let me know. You have Visual Studio 2013, ay? Is it the express edition or what?
This is confirmed bug in VS 2019. Just Microsoft is not so fast about fixing it.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/351537/provide-a-way-to-prevent-the-script-documents-fold.html
is there an Add-In which allows me to tag or mark files in Visual Studio and then these files are visual highlighted (eg. different background color) ?
I searched the Visual Studio Gallery but didn't find anything.
Thanks!
To highlight only the active (open and viewed) item in the solution explorer (without any add-ins):
Go to Tools -> Options -> Projects And Solutions
Then Check the Track Active Item in Solution Explorer option.
But if you really want to use any extension in order to mark the files you already checked/reworked so that you get an better overview or whatever then I would suggest ReSharper which has a number of features assisting navigation and search.
For example, there is a To-do Explorer which helps navigation between to-do items within the solution. You can also create custom filters in Resharper To-do Explorer. After creating custom filters according to your need, you will have to leave comments wherever required but you won't have to open all the files to read the comments.
I found the extension Visual Studio Tags on codeplex that can do what we need, but there's not (yet) visual support (ie, diferent colors in solution explorer).
In Visual Studio 2008 you could use Sara Ford's did you know #331 (Did you know… You can keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab Channel? - #331) to make the tabs ordered in MRU (most recently used) order (i.e. the current window is always the left most tab, the previously visited window is second tab, and so forth).
The registry entry listed in the blog post does not appear to work in VS2010 and I have not figured out a way to get tabs listed in MRU. Does anyone know if there is a way in Visual Studio 2010 to keep the most recently-used file from falling off the File Tab Channel?
In the "Productivity Power Tools" extension, the Remove Tabs By Usage Order option seems to be what you are looking for.
Try installing the "Productivity Power Tools" extension - you can disable any other features that you don't use, but the customisation of the tab well is very useful. I don't think it does MRU order, but there are a number of other options that might help.
Another solution, if you are using Windows 7, would be to pin VS2010 to the task bar and then pin them to the programme tasks bar within that through drag and drop for instance.