Clean up file names in Visual Studio's tabbed document interface?

Question

Inside a visual studio project I have the following folders (for example)

• foo/
• bar/
• LongFolderName/

When I open up a file in LongFolderName/ the tab gets labeled with LongFolderName/L...me.ascx when I'd prefer LongFileName.ascx (omitting the name of the folder). Any way to set Visual Studio to ignore the folder name when labeling the tab?

EDIT: here is what my tab bar looks like:

Notice how the names of my files are truncated past readability. I've got "EventCalendar," "MonthlyEventCalendar," and "WeeklyEventCalendar" and as it stands its rather hard to tell the difference. I know that these files are in UserControls/. How do I get VS to stop telling me?

EDIT: The name of the file in the Window | Windows menu is longfoldername/longfilename as is the title of the window if I switch VS to MDI interface.

Answer 1

If you click on the Window | Windows... menuitem, what do the Name and Path fields look like for your open documents?

On my install, the Name fields are just the filenames, exactly what appears in the tabs.

Do the full paths appear in the window titles if you set the Window layout to "Multiple documents"?

Answer 2

Yep, alt+tab-dialog and tabbed-interface in newest visual studio has become completely unusable. With big projects and deep folder hierarchies you can't see what files you are editing and switching. It seems Microsoft wants us to work blindfolded. :) Although you would think that microsoft has it's share of gigantic blob projects where they could notice this problem..

So, anywhu, I'm also searching for a way simplify Visual Studio 2008 tabbed-interface.

Answer 3

It does not appear you can do what you are asking...I have been searching for a while now.

I am assuming you have tried the multiple documents layout...

http://forums.asp.net/t/1285843.aspx

There is the pre-release of vs2010 which may address this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en

or go to msdn for some videos of it in use.

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Answer 4

longfoldername/longfilename tab name is used in Visual Studio Web Site projects. Maybe it would help if you created a ASP.NET Web Application project in the same folder with a different name and used that project when editing files.

Answer 5

Tabs Studio add-in for Visual Studio that replaces built-in Visual Studio tabs doesn't shorten tab names and has option to remove path from tab name.