Identifying Views in the Visual Studio Tab List

Question

In MVC you are likely to have many views with the same name (such as Index.cshtml or Edit.aspx) for the various controllers.

Depending on your working style, you might end up with a few tabs open in Visual Studio ending up with a tablist that looks like:

Index.cshtml|Index.cshtml|SomeController.cs|Edit.cshtml|Index.cshtml|Edit.cshtml|

It is possible to hover over the tabs and wait for the context hint to show up, but I was wondering if anyone had a technique or plugin where the correct file could be more easily identified at a glance (i.e. the Index.cshtml for the SomeController)?

Answer 1

There may be an extension in the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools that will make your life easier. The Document Well 2010 Plus allows you to configure the document tabs.