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> Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them. I used to be the same way b

> Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them. I used to be the same way but then I discovered Visual Studio's vertical tab option. Tabs are displayed vertically on the left side of the editor pane. The filenames are all aligned so it's actually possible to visually scan them. You can group them by project and color code them by file type. Tabs are unusable otherwise. For me at least.

kazinator 3y ago
There are browser extensions to do that with browser tabs. I use Sideberry.
jimktrains2 3y ago
I use the tab tree extension in Firefox for the same reason. Vertical tabs have only minor usefulness anymore for me.
bob1029 3y ago
Thank you. I just tried this out and it immediately felt like a dagger being removed from my back. I can instantly see my new pattern is solution explorer on the right, vertical tabs on the left. I can probably go back to one 1440p monitor again. I was abusing multiple monitors just to keep tabs pinned in physical space...
speakspokespok 3y ago
My Google Fu is pretty good and I cannot find how to do this. I love vertical tabs in Firefox and never considered doing this in VSCode. How!? edit: on linux at least the process linked below doesn't work... https://domysee.com/blogposts/vscode-vertical-tabs https://domysee.com/blogposts/vscode-vertical-tabs
- nwallin 3y ago
  I was talking about Visual Studio proper, not VSCode.
- huntoa 3y ago
  It does work for me on linux, v1.80.1. But it doesn't seem possible to put the sidebars next to each other: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177812 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177812
- jahewson 3y ago
  VSCode has something similar to vertical tabs called “Open Editors”
heavenlyblue 3y ago
You don't need tabs if navigation between files is done properly. For example Bookmarks is massively stronger proposition than tabs.

kazinator 3y ago

There are browser extensions to do that with browser tabs. I use Sideberry.

jimktrains2 3y ago

I use the tab tree extension in Firefox for the same reason. Vertical tabs have only minor usefulness anymore for me.

bob1029 3y ago

Thank you. I just tried this out and it immediately felt like a dagger being removed from my back. I can instantly see my new pattern is solution explorer on the right, vertical tabs on the left. I can probably go back to one 1440p monitor again. I was abusing multiple monitors just to keep tabs pinned in physical space...

speakspokespok 3y ago

My Google Fu is pretty good and I cannot find how to do this. I love vertical tabs in Firefox and never considered doing this in VSCode. How!? edit: on linux at least the process linked below doesn't work... https://domysee.com/blogposts/vscode-vertical-tabs https://domysee.com/blogposts/vscode-vertical-tabs

nwallin 3y ago
I was talking about Visual Studio proper, not VSCode.
huntoa 3y ago
It does work for me on linux, v1.80.1. But it doesn't seem possible to put the sidebars next to each other: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177812 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177812
jahewson 3y ago
VSCode has something similar to vertical tabs called “Open Editors”

heavenlyblue 3y ago

You don't need tabs if navigation between files is done properly. For example Bookmarks is massively stronger proposition than tabs.