How do you keep Visual Studio tabs sorted

Question

Is there a built in way, or a free add-in, that can keep the tab bar of open files sorted in alphabetical order? Once sorted, how can I get CTRL-PageUP/DOWN (or other shortcut) to jump left/right instead of most/least recently viewed file.

Thanks, Kurt

Answer 1

In VS 2017, using the Productivity Power Tools extension you can navigate to:

TOOLS > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well

Here you'll see a 'Sorting' section, where you can select 'Alphabetically'.

With the new settings applied the CTRL + PAGE DOWN (or in my case, CTRL + ALT + PAGE DOWN) will just flip between next/previous windows.

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In VS 2019, they aren't able to port the Custom Document Well extension so you'll have to vote for this feature to be added to Visual Studio instead.

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I don't have VS 2008, so I'm not sure if the path to get to those setting is exactly the same. If you are unable to find it, you should be able to install Productivity Power Tools from the Extensions and Updates module (also located under TOOLS).

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

It is not perfect but the downward-pointing triangle just to the left of the X that closes the current editor tab does display all currently opened files in alphabetical order.

Answer 3

I use ReSharper's "Go To...":

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