Tabs Studio 2.4 comes as a smart and useful Visual Studio add-in empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. Tabs Studio supports Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005 and SQL Server Management Studio 2008/2005.

This Visual Studio add-in will especially come handy when you open a large number of tabs at once since it enhances the experience of the built-in functionality to better allow for such cases. It enables the presentation of open documents in subject-related groups, multiple rows and in customization-enabled approaches, making navigation quicker and promoting efficiency. All developers having worked with medium or large-scale Visual Studio projects in the past are expected to appreciate this tool, since the quest of locating an open document among 10 or more tabs, whilst retaining a train of thought, is more than common. 

Major Features:

1. Multiple rows of tabs: Make all tabs visible in multiple rows or limit maximum number of rows and hide rarely used tabs to save screen space.
2. Tab grouping: Automatically group tabs with the same name but different extensions on one extended tab, save screen space and keep relevant tabs close to each other.
3. Tab coloring: Set up different colors for tabs matching specified tab name, document project or path pattern.
4. Title transformation: Remove path from tab name and add folder or project name only when two opened tabs have the same name.
5. Keyboard navigation: Open, close and switch tabs using customizable keyboard shortcuts.
6. Flexible behavior: Set up rules to automatically sort, group, order and open tabs.
7. Customizable presentation: Select close tab button visibility, tab shape, theme colors. Design your own XAML style.
8. Extensibility API: Write your own extension to Tabs Studio and Visual Studio in any .NET language leveraging open source code of existing Tabs Studio add-ins.

Enhancements:

• Added the Stable tabs layout.
• Added the Animate tab movement option for the Stable tabs layout. Read more (part 1)... Read more (part 2)...
• 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.

Requirements:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7
• .NET 3.5 SP1