Marker add-in

Marker lets you highlight a few tabs, temporarily, to quickly come back to them. Ctrl+Click a tab highlights it and Ctrl+Click again removes highlighting:

The default highlighting style provided by Marker decorates TabInternals with the red gradient background line. You can choose to decorate another tab element or just change the highlighting color in a custom Tabs Studio style:

<Style TargetType="TabsStudio:TabInternals" BasedOn="{StaticResource DefaultTabInternalsStyle}">
    <Style.Triggers>
      <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=(TabsStudioMarker:Properties.HighlightIndex),
                 RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=TabsStudio:Tab}}" Value="1">
          <Setter Property="Background">
              <Setter.Value>
                   <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="0,1">
                       <GradientStop Color="Transparent" Offset="0.8"/>
                       <GradientStop Color="Green" Offset="1"/>
                   </LinearGradientBrush>
              </Setter.Value>
          </Setter>
      </DataTrigger>
  </Style.Triggers>
</Style>

You can also highlight a tab or remove highlighting from the context menu, remove highlighting from all tabs at once and close all tabs that are not currently highlighted:

The highlighted tabs list is saved when you close Visual Studio and highlighting is restored when the solution is opened the next time. This information is stored per solution in a [solution name].marker.tss file in a solution directory along with the sln and suo files.

The following Visual Studio commands are available for keyboard binding with the TabsStudio.Connect prefix: MarkerRemoveAllHighlighting, MarkerCloseAllButHighlighted, MarkerToggleTabHighlighting, MarkerNextTabHighlightingColor.

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