OT: VS 2005 option question

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Marina

When VS.NET opens up a new document, it creates the new tab as the first
tab. Not the last like VS 2003 did.

As I'm opening documents, everything ends up in reverse from what I actually
wanted it to be. If I open up documents 1,2,3, then that is the order I want
them in. I don't want them to be 3,2,1. This is incredibly irritating. It's
really hard to imagine anyone actually wanting this functionality - but I
definitely do not.

Is there an option for this? I haven't been able to find it.

Thanks
 
Marina said:
When VS.NET opens up a new document, it creates the new tab as the first
tab. Not the last like VS 2003 did.

As I'm opening documents, everything ends up in reverse from what I
actually wanted it to be. If I open up documents 1,2,3, then that is the
order I want them in. I don't want them to be 3,2,1. This is incredibly
irritating. It's really hard to imagine anyone actually wanting this
functionality - but I definitely do not.

Is there an option for this? I haven't been able to find it.

Thanks
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The entire "tabbed" interface (along with a treeview code window and no
decent immediate window) is irritating to me and I can't imagine anyone
wanting it either ;-).... but that's me <g>... Note that you can drag/drop
those tabs to any position/order you want. Usually, the first thing I do is
turn those tabs off completely.
 
Marina said:
When VS.NET opens up a new document, it creates the new tab as the first
tab. Not the last like VS 2003 did.

As I'm opening documents, everything ends up in reverse from what I
actually wanted it to be. If I open up documents 1,2,3, then that is the
order I want them in. I don't want them to be 3,2,1. This is incredibly
irritating. It's really hard to imagine anyone actually wanting this
functionality - but I definitely do not.

Is there an option for this? I haven't been able to find it.
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I've read the complaints about this new behavior before. I don't believe
there is any way to change it.

Some reading...

http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2004/05/14/132065.aspx

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=124485&SiteID=1

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/Produ...edbackid=3d1236c8-c124-4d3c-82ed-51abcead553d

Greg
 
No option but there should be. As I recall the response to those posting to
MSDN Product Feedback about this issue was "drag the tabes into the order
you want."

I'd like to see tabbed groups so I can open and close a set of ordered files
as a group but a really useful IDE would be too much to expect after more
than 10 years of developers asking for this functionality.


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I don't see any way to change it, but I actually like it this way. The
files I opened last tend to be the ones I want to use the most so having
them up front helps me. What I don't like is that there doesn't seem to be
any way to scroll through the files to find ones that are open. Instead
there is a new drop down (or pop-up) menu that lists them in window. I also
wish you could group .cpp and .h files like we could with WndTabs. Those
files usually go together well.

Tom
 
Ok, thanks everyone for responding. It is unfortunate that they made this
change. I like the tabbed interface, but I find it counterintuitive to have
files in reverse order.

It's annoying to have to drag them around just to get them in the order they
should have been in the first place.

Thanks again.
 
Marina,

I have almost the same opinion as Tom, I found the way it was done in VS2003
irritating.

Now that they have changed it, is it in my opinion more logical, the old
pages are scrolling to the left.

However I keep have problems with it like you told, I think that it is
because that I have still for some reasons VS2003 active and therefore saty
used to that.

I assume that when that is over I will like the new method more.

Just my thought,

Cor
 
I'm actually getting used to the little pull down menu and I admit that I
shouldn't have that many files open anyway, but I still liked the old scroll
buttons better. I'm sure this time next month I'll be used to it and it
won't matter at all. There are so many other improvements that make
upgrading compelling (price not one of them <g>)

Tom
 
Tom Serface said:
I'm actually getting used to the little pull down menu and I admit that I
shouldn't have that many files open anyway, but I still liked the old
scroll buttons better. I'm sure this time next month I'll be used to it
and it won't matter at all. There are so many other improvements that
make upgrading compelling (price not one of them <g>)

Tom
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I find myself never even using those tabs at all. Takes to much energy to
scan them all looking for what I want. I'm always just reselecting the file
I need in Solution Explorer.

Is this sacrilegious or what? :^)

Greg
 
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