Move / Drag Tags within Visual Studio .NET 2003

Did you know you can drag file tabs around within Visual Studio .NET 2003?  Try this, open up several files, then click and drag one of the tabs for an open file and move it to another position within the set of tabs.  Cool huh?

You can also drag and drop tabs onto the current opened file.  When you do this, a menu will pop up asking if you want to create a “New Horizontal Tag Group” or “New Vertical Tag Group”.  Select one and presto, you have either a horizontal or vertical split screen with the dragged file in the upper split screen. Cool huh?

Don't forget the “Windows  |  Close All Files“ menu when closing several open files all at once. It sure beats clicking the small upper right X for each file...    ;-)

Enjoy!

6 Comments

  • But when will they "link" the design view and code view tabs together per file for ASP.NET and WindowsForms? :P

  • If I understand your question correctly, no, when you move the designer file tab, the corresponding code-behine file tab doesn't move with it.



    Plus when you create a new Tag Group, only the file that you drop will be shown in there. Of course you can always drag the code-behind in there, or his the show code-behind file for the drop file.

  • And when will that close-all feature be placed in a more usable location? Perhaps right-click on a tab - close all...



    Steve

  • Steve - That would be nice, huh? How about you recommend that feature for Whidbey?

  • I move tabs around all day on my multi-monitor development workstation.. I wish there was a way to set pane affinity / pane preference as vs.net doesn't remember where tabs were previously located.



    Another thing that drives me nuts, is the vertical tab group splitter wanders all over the place when clicking back and forth from one side to the other, depending on if you have a web/help document open, code window, or form design window open on each side.. it will move (usually left) the width of the scrollbar, this may not sound like that big of a concern, but it's frustrating to adjust the pane splitter back to the middle (multiple monitors) and then have it jump over as soon as you click into a code window.. not having it in the dead-center of a multi-display configuration makes it counter-intuitive to use.

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