Efficiently Manage Your Open Documents By Using Tabs Studio, A Visual Studio Add-in

By Author: Sergey Vlasov
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Use Tabs Studio to enable a more efficient management of tabs, being able to locate and view desired documents in a more structured and quicker way. This Visual Studio add-in distinguishes itself with functionality such as utilization of grouped tabs, multiple row ability, visual styles and providing the ability to the user to add custom function plug-ins. Designed with the professional Windows application developer in mind, it is currently compatible with all Visual Studio major versions, i.e. 2005, 2008 and even the 2010 beta.

Visit the tool's website at http://www.tabsstudio.com to verify by yourself the capabilities this product has to offer. Whether by looking at the reviews the product received, reading the in-depth documentation of capabilities or even better, trying out the free demo, it will become apparent that the number and efficiency of its provided functions can make this tool indispensable, especially when dealing with a large number of open documents at the same time. Even if you guardedly keep tabs open when programming with Visual Studio, being able to do otherwise ...
... can prove very satisfactory and time-saving. Such functionality features include:

* The automatic separation and grouping of tabs that relate to different types of programming, e.g. Web, Visual Basic and C++ at the same time.
* The ability to remove the path information from the tab titles, leaving only what is considered most important.
* The ability to automatically set tabs to group in one of a predefined ways, such as depending on file name, directory and other.
* Open file commands directly in the context menu of each tab instead of having to navigate to the main menu each time.
* Have multiple tab rows instead of just one that scrolls, so that no tab is left outside your viewing area.
* Utilizing XAML code for the tab styles and previewing them in a direct way.
* Having available multiple tab viewing customizations, such as background and font colours as user options.
* Customization of each tab's title to one's preference.
* Including your own custom .NET add-ins.
* Supports of the MDI mode, i.e. ability to display tabs when multiple windows are opened simultaneously.
* The ability of both vertical and horizontal group presentation of tab content on the user screen.

Being able therefore to perform advanced visualization of your tabs, each tab element can now be presented with your own custom colours, fonts, positioning and visibility after the simple application of a preferred style template. The final result will be an adjusted version of what each user considers the optimum navigation panel that allows for quicker and easier work in the Visual Studio environment.

The advantages of the Tabs Studio add-in are better understood in medium to large-scale Visual Studio projects, whether developing web projects, or Windows applications in one of the common programming languages. Advantages are even more obvious when more complex projects are being developed, such as when working with a mixture of the above development types at the same time. The chaos of the large number of tabs needed to be open can then be brought into order, enabling easier accessibility.