Comments on: Visual Studio Tab Un-stupidifier Macro

By: Greg Bray

Greg Bray — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:42:28 +0000

Works fine for me in Visual Studio 2010 binding the macro to the Global Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab keys. I did end up hiding the bubble by setting Visual Studio 2010 to “Hide icon and notifications” from the system tray in Windows 7, but otherwise it does exactly what I wanted.

Also I posted a bug on Connect regarding non-MRU lookup, and they said that they will try and add it to the next release of Visual Studio. More info here: http://goo.gl/K9rz

By: David Foster

David Foster — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:19:25 +0000

I would give you sixty trillion mightybucks if you can get this working reliably in Visual Studio 2010. Arrrggghhh! Visual Studio 2010 is such an awesome IDE but it’s Ctrl+Tab behaviour makes me weep like a little bitch.

By: Danilo

Danilo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:25:15 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work on Visual Studio 2008 :(

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:58:18 +0000

Thaaaaaaank you!

By: Miguel Diab

Miguel Diab — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:57:34 +0000

From the corners of South America my grattitude to you! This is amazing :)
I’ve been looking for this for quite a while…
Too bad to had to resort to f@#$! macros! Why didn’t Ms left a “OrderedNextTab” “OrderedPreviousTab”…

Thanks again!

By: Sergey Vlasov

Sergey Vlasov — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:50:24 +0000

@Tabber: Commercial Tabs Studio add-in for Visual Studio gives programmatic access to the tab bar and offers lots of tab management and customization features:
http://www.tabsstudio.com

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:53:20 +0000

For what it’s worth I like both MRU and “Order of Tab” flipping. I’ve left ctrl+tab alone because I frequently switch back and forth between two files, and used ctrl+PgUp/PgDn (learned from firefox) for your lovely macro. Now I am truly a happy man.

Btw does anyone know why the Window.NextTab and Window.PreviousTab don’t seem to do anything? Are they not talking about document tabs or something?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:07:31 +0000

Neil,

Window.NextDocumentWindow also cycles based on MRU.

By: Neil Moss

Neil Moss — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:10:24 +0000

Ummm – there are ide-supplied commands to achieve this.

Set the mappings below:
ctrl-tab: Window.NextDocumentWindow
ctrl-shift-tab: Window.PreviousDocumentWindow

It’s the first thing I do when working with VS on a new PC. No macros, and no tray icon bubbles.

Neil.

By: Ger O'Donnell

Ger O'Donnell — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:47:26 +0000

This reorders the tab bar alphabetically. Won’t help with Ctrl+Tab but might make finding the right file using the mouse a bit easier…

Public Class myReverserClass
Implements IComparer

‘ Calls CaseInsensitiveComparer.Compare with the parameters reversed.
Public Function Compare(ByVal x As Object, ByVal y As Object) As Integer _
Implements IComparer.Compare
Return New CaseInsensitiveComparer().Compare(y, x)
End Function ‘IComparer.Compare

End Class ‘myReverserClass

Sub TemporaryMacro()
Dim keyList = New ArrayList
Dim doc As Document
Dim value As String
For Each doc In DTE.Documents
value = doc.Name & vbTab & doc.FullName

If Not keyList.Contains(value) Then
keyList.Add(value)
End If
Next
‘ Sort in reverse order
Dim myComparer = New myReverserClass()

keyList.Sort(myComparer)

‘ Move each window to the new tab group (moving the last one will close the original tab group).
Dim fName As String, fPath As String
Dim TestArray() As String
For Each value In keyList
TestArray = Split(value, vbTab)
If TestArray.Length > 1 And TestArray(1) “” Then
DTE.Documents.Item(TestArray(1)).ActiveWindow.Activate()
OpenInOtherWindow()
End If
Next
End Sub
Private Sub OpenInOtherWindow()
Try
DTE.ExecuteCommand(“Window.MovetoNextTabGroup”)
Catch
Try
DTE.ExecuteCommand(“Window.MovetoPreviousTabGroup”)
Catch
DTE.ExecuteCommand(“Window.TileVertically”)
End Try
End Try
End Sub