What's New

Tabs Studio v2.6.0 - December 13, 2011

• Added the ability to sort tabs by project, extension and with path in the tab name to the Sorter add-in.
• Enabled separate add-in settings for SSMS 2008 and VS 2008.
• Included add-in settings to export/import settings.
• Fixed add-ins restart (for example, SingleRow crashed after import settings restart).
• Fixed the failure to load the AvalonStyleEditor add-in on localized Visual Studio editions.
• Fixed loss of the previously selected tab state in SSMS when opening a new tab with tab grouping enabled.
• Removed separate tabs tool window activation each time debugging starts in Visual Studio 2010 and fixed a rare crash when making this window visible.
• Fixed tabs reset when Windows theme is changed with Visual Studio 2010 running.

Tabs Studio v2.5.5 - October 17, 2011

• Added the PriorityGroup add-in.
• Added the LessRowsPriority property to customize tab layout.
• Added basic support for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview.
• Fixed an occasional tabs reorder in VS 2010 when starting a debug session introduced with Tabs Studio v2.4.5.
• Fixed loss of highlighting for a tab moved to another group.
• Fixed tab moving to a row with not enough row buffer.
• Fixed an internal XamlParseException visible when debugging your own Visual Studio add-in.
• Fixed uninstallation of CloseAllButThisTab and EmailSupport commands.

Tabs Studio v2.4.5 - August 16, 2011

• Added the ability to export and import Tabs Studio settings.
• Unified tab layouts to Horizontal and Vertical.
• Added the ability to highlight tabs with different colors to the Marker add-in.
• Added tab movement animation support for the Vertical tabs layout.
• Added the Re-sort tabs tab context menu command to the Sorter add-in.
• Added Disable Tabs Studio option reset on reinstallation.
• Added the Close tooltip to the close tab button.
• Changed the unfocused selected tab background in Visual Studio 2010 to be more prominent.
• Fixed occasional change of selected extension in a tab in Visual Studio 2010 after switching to the full screen mode or starting a debug session.

Tabs Studio v2.4.0 - June 12, 2011

• Added the Stable tabs layout.
• Added the Animate tab movement option for the Stable tabs layout.
• Enabled the AvalonStyleEditor, Marker, NewGroup, Saver, Sync and XMenu add-ins by default.
• Updated the Marker add-in to not create a settings file for a solution when no tabs are highlighted.
• Improved tab measurement and arrangement correctness in the Shaper add-in.
• Fixed VS 2010 intellisense stops working when switching tabs with a suggestions list active.
• Fixed an occasional 1 pixel wide gap between tabs in Visual Studio 2010.

Tabs Studio v2.3.5 - May 5, 2011

• Added the XMenu add-in to the Tabs Studio installer.
• Added the Tab extensions regex rule to the Tab Coloring Rule dialog and added the TabExtensions property to the Tab control.
• Added NavigateToNextWindow and NavigateToPreviousWindow commands to the Navigator add-in.
• Added the TabsStudio.Connect.CloseAllButThisTab command.
• Added the GetCorrespondingFiles function to ITabsStudioEngine extensibility API.
• Updated the Marker add-in to save the highlighted tabs list when you close Visual Studio and restore highlighting when the solution is opened the next time.
• Updated the Disambiguator add-in to prefer project names for tabs from different projects.
• Changed extensions sorting in a tab and in the Open context menu commands list to ignore case.
• Fixed several bugs in the Saver add-in preventing it to correctly restore tabs order.
• Fixed excessive window rescans when applying changed Tabs Studio options.

Tabs Studio v2.3.2 - March 17, 2011

• Added the Marker add-in to the Tabs Studio installer.
• Added a warning message when Document Well 2010 Plus is installed.

Tabs Studio v2.3.1 - March 3, 2011

• Added special character escapes when populating the tab name and project name regular expressions in the Tab Coloring Rule dialog.
• Added the OpenNext add-in to the installer.
• Disabled document floating on tab double click in Visual Studio 2010.
• Disabled default SSMS tab grouping.
• Updated the Disambiguator add-in to ignore case differences when comparing tab titles.
• Updated the Shaper add-in to support customizable horizontal tab alignment.
• Fixed absence of the file save dialog when closing a modified xaml file.
• Fixed TypeInitializationException during debugging when dragging the DataSet Visualizer over tabs.
• Fixed right close tab button alignment in Visual Studio 2010.
• Fixed occasional short appearance of original Visual Studio 2010 tabs (e.g. when starting a debug session).
• Fixed inability to use special characters like < in regular expressions of the Tab Coloring Rule dialog.

Tabs Studio v2.2.5 - January 27, 2011

• Added real tabs preview to the Options dialog.
• Added the Disable Tabs Studio option.
• Changed tabs tool window background to match Visual Studio background in VS 2010.
• Fixed missing stdole.dll exception for some partial VS 2005 and VS 2010 installations.
• Fixed opening relative files in other directories for solutions with unloaded projects.
• Fixed assertion violation when changing example paths in Path Grouping options to root or upper directory values.

Tabs Studio v2.2.3 - December 2, 2010

• Added the Check for product updates on startup and Group files from completely different directories options.
• Added support for solution folders and improved performance when looking for corresponding files.
• Changed extensions sorting to place extensions without a dot at the end.
• Changed the Don't group designer files regex snippet to include more files.
• Changed the spilt preview to the grouping preview in Title grouping options.
• Refined Title grouping and Path grouping pages.
• Fixed incorrect installation when VS uses the Visual Studio 10 folder instead of Visual Studio 2010.

Tabs Studio v2.2.0 - November 19, 2010

• Added tab coloring parameters and the Set color context menu command.
• Added Paths, TabName and ProjectName tab item properties.
• Added the ability to customize the style from add-ins.
• Added default styles to SingleRow and Shaper.
• Added SingleRow and AvalonStyleEditor to the Tabs Studio installer.
• Added sample snippets and the ability to revert to default for title and path grouping regular expressions.
• Added the 1 second delay before activating a tab when dragging a text over its header.
• Added RegexMatch converter to default style resources.
• Replaced the Quick Style dialog with Presentation options.
• Changed DefaultTabExtensionCloseButton style key to DefaultTabExtensionCloseButtonStyle.
• Deleted Projector from prepackaged add-ins.
• Updated system requirements to have .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.
• Fixed Disambiguator not working with the Remove path from tab name option.
• Fixed an installation for SSMS when Visual Studio is not installed.

Tabs Studio v2.1.5 - October 23, 2010

• Added tab activation when dragging text over the tab header.
• Added automatic Tabs Studio restart after saving changes in the Add-in Manager dialog.
• Added ability to customize the style editor in Tabs Studio.
• Added maximized window state and selected tab restoring when reopening the Options dialog.
• Added support for PowerBuilder .NET 12.0.
• Removed an error notification when placing a non Tabs Studio add-in dll to the add-in installation folder.
• Fixed inability to use the tab character in the style editor.

Tabs Studio v2.1.2 - September 26, 2010

• Added Disambiguator, MvcGroup, Navigator, NewGroup, Projector, Saver, Shaper, Sorter, Sync and Troubleshooter add-ins to the Tabs Studio installer.
• Added ability to enable and disable add-ins in the Add-in Manager window.
• Added the TabsHost root control for tabs panel customization.
• Added the Write e-mail to support button to the Tabs Studio toolbar.

Tabs Studio v2.1.0 - August 12, 2010

• Added ability to customize tab name content with custom controls.
• Removed excessive tab updates on settings change, extension removal, extension modification.
• Fixed rare AccessViolationException after closing tabs in Visual Studio 2008.

Tabs Studio v2.0.6 - June 23, 2010

• Added more add-ins loading error diagnostic.
• Fixed inability to run Tabs Studio from a network share in VS 2010.

Tabs Studio v2.0.5 - June 9, 2010

• Added Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools support.
• Added tab floating on double click in VS 2010.
• Improved compatibility with other add-ins' toolbars in VS 2010.

Tabs Studio v2.0.1 - May 7, 2010

• Fixed tabs reordering when entering the debug mode in Visual Studio 2010.

Tabs Studio v2.0.0 - April 18, 2010

• Added the Tabs Studio toolbar to VS 2010.
• Added the Show tabs in a separate window option to VS 2010.
• Added close file buttons.
• Added support for Debugging and Executing tab states in SSMS.
• Added ReadOnly tab title text cleanup in SSMS.
• Changed selected tab colors to match the default VS 2010 theme.
• Removed the XP quick style option in VS 2010.
• Removed the fixed expiration date for VS 2010.
• Verified Visual Studio 2010 RTM support.
• Fixed the rare unhandled exception when creating the Tabs Studio toolbar.

Tabs Studio v1.9.0 - March 5, 2010

• Added two additional tabs layouts: Wrap and Stack.
• Added the Group titles ignoring case differences option.
• Added Title grouping regex processing to single titles.
• Changed default Title grouping regex and remove path transform to support a path with back slashes.
• Improved the first Tabs window's reliability to save and restore its position.
• Changed Tabs Studio extensibility API for Panel access and correspondingly updated Navigator, Saver and Sorter add-ins.
• Changed installer to leave disabled Tabs Studio state in SSMS on upgrade.
• Separated remove path transforms for VS and SSMS internally.
• Removed unnecessary access to Visual Studio documents on tabs update.
• Verified Visual Studio 2010 RC support.
• Fixed 2 pixels tabs overflow over a code window in SSMS.
• Fixed an occasional dark 1 pixel line under the tabs.
• Fixed the Open Corresponding File error to open .h files on non-English VS editions by removing workaround to open Windows Forms .h files from .h [Design].
• Fixed inability to display identical extensions in one tab group.
• Fixed rare code window shift when using tabs in a separate window.
• Fixed the incorrect package name in the Visual Studio 2010 About window for the Tabs Studio 2010 Helper extension.

Tabs Studio v1.8.0 - February 4, 2010

• Added the Show tabs in a separate window option (except in VS 2010).
• Added the TabsStudio.Connect.ShowTabsWindow command.
• Added Tabs Studio toolbar (except in VS 2010).
• Added a Quick Style option to animate extension selection and the close tab button.
• Added IsGroupFocused and IsGroupWithLastActiveDocument properties for styling (only in VS 2010).
• Added Remove path from tab name option functionality for SSMS.
• Added support for SSMS table paths.
• Added the Maximum number of tabs in a group option.
• Added Tabs Studio commands removal from Visual Studio 2005/2008 on uninstallation.
• Added version information to the VS About window.
• Created new title grouping rules for SSMS.
• Organized separate settings storage for SSMS.
• Changed empty tab grouping regex options to mean "disable tab grouping".
• Renamed the Settings command to Options.
• Improved selected tab glow in Visual Studio 2010.
• Fixed excessive selected tab updates.
• Fixed underscore duplication in extension introduced with new style in v1.7.2.
• Fixed windows shift in VS 2005 and SSMS.
• Fixed rare tab non grouping after renaming a document.
• Fixed rare unhandled exception in SSMS query designer.
• Fixed unhandled exception when opening context menu in a solution with unrecognized projects.

Tabs Studio v1.7.2 - October 28, 2009

• Added Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 support.
• Added automatic registration with SQL Server Management Studio 2005.
• Updated default tab extension style.

Tabs Studio v1.7.0 - October 21, 2009

• Added the Quick Style builder.
• Added ability to customize tab context menu from an add-in.
• Added experimental floating tab group support for Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• Added experimental support for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008.
• Added Help and Add-in installation folder links to the Add-in Manager window.
• Added the Help link to the Options window.
• Redesigned the close tab button.
• Conducted general UI cleanup.
• Fixed sharing violation accessing registration info file when opening several Visual Studio instances at the same time.

Tabs Studio v1.6.0 - September 4, 2009

• Added support for custom add-ins.
• Added ability to customize file modification status.
• Changed default title splitting regex to handle dot in directory name.
• Fixed inability to install Tabs Studio when My Documents directory points to a network share.
• Fixed inability to install Tabs Studio when AlwaysInstallElevated policy is set on the computer.
• Fixed Tabs Studio dialogs centering when Visual Studio is maximized.
• Fixed Visual Studio tabs displacement after unloading Tabs Studio.

Tabs Studio v1.5.0 - August 1, 2009

• Added support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.
• Added MDI mode support.
• Created single msi installer for all supported Visual Studio versions.
• Changed tab closing and tab context menu opening from mouse button down to mouse button up event.

Tabs Studio v1.4.0 - June 24, 2009

• Added advanced tab grouping options.
• Added digital signature to the Tabs Studio installer and TabsStudio.dll.
• Added experimental support and separate installer for Visual Studio 2005.
• Fixed missing underscores in context menu file name.
• Fixed missing corresponding file for documents with path in tab name.
• Fixed tabs displacement and reordering when using virtual desktop software.

Tabs Studio v1.3.2 - June 4, 2009

• Added support for larger than normal DPI scaling display settings.
• Fixed assertion failure when closing Web Browser window (and windows based on Web Browser such as Integrated Help and Samples) using Window.CloseDocumentWindow keyboard command or using Window - Hide menu command.

Tabs Studio v1.3.0 - June 2, 2009

• Added horizontal and vertical tab groups support.
• Added ability to open corresponding files using tab context menu and using TabsStudio.Connect.OpenCorrespondingFile command.
• Added .aspx.vb, .inl to the list of combinable extensions.
• Fixed tab from moving to the last position on read only status change.
• Fixed accidental tab drag on tab selection when number of toolbars changes.

Tabs Studio v1.2.0 - May 21, 2009

• Added Visual Studio TabsStudio.Connect.* commands to open about and settings dialogs, close selected tab, activate previous and next extensions in selected tab, select previously selected tab.
• Added ability to change tab position by dragging it with mouse.
• Added style preview.
• Added Save, Floating, Dockable and Close All Documents commands to tab's context menu.
• Added tooltip for non document tabs.
• Added IsPreviouslySelectedTab and IsDocument properties to tab controls.
• Fixed unhandled exception when applying style with control template having invalid type.
• Fixed IsTabSelected and IsMultiExtensions properties for TabToolTip control; IsTabSelected, IsExtensionActive and IsExtensionReadOnly properties for TabExtensionToolTip control; IsMultiExtensions property for TabInternals and Tab controls. These properties were always false.

Tabs Studio v1.1.0 - May 8, 2009

• Added visual styling support.
• Added close tab button to selected tab.
• Added Remove path from tab name option.
• Fixed tab rows from switching on tab selection.
• Added .ascx, .ascx.cs, .master, .master.cs to the list of combinable extensions.

Tabs Studio v1.0.0 - April 6, 2009

• Added registration.
• Added more icons to the tabs context menu.

Tabs Studio v0.9.0 - April 1, 2009

• Added Close All But This, Copy Full Path and Open Containing Folder context menu commands.
• Added a file path tooltip for tabs.

Tabs Studio v0.8.6 - March 31, 2009

• Added lock icon and ability to be combinable for read only files.
• Added .settings, .js, .svc, .svc.cs to the list of combinable extensions.
• Reduced extension shadow opacity.
• Documented requirement to have C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable installed to run Tabs Studio on VS 2008 RTM.

Tabs Studio v0.8.5 - March 28, 2009

• Added automatic tab grouping.
• Created Tabs Studio icon.
• Fixed rare incorrect vertical tabs position after opening a solution.

Tabs Studio v0.8.0 - March 17, 2009

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