How to disable floating tabs in Visual Studio 2010

Question

I now use the new Visual Studio 2010 and I experience something very annoying that wasn't happening before with Visual Studio 2008. Something changed with the way it handles the floating of tabs and I can't stand it. Every once in a while, I would somehow trigger the floating of a tab instead of just switching to it. It may have to do with the way I click (maybe a very fast double click gets sent), or maybe I very slightly drag the mouse when clicking the tab. I don't know. All I know is that I was fine with Visual Studio 2008.

Is there a way to disable this somewhere? I want to either un-register the double click as a floating tab trigger, or remove the floating option altogether.

How can I do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Not sure how to disable it, but if you hold and double click the tab again, it will dock back to its last position.

I found this very annoying but with Ctrl+DoubleClick the problem is not so painful anymore.

Answer 2

I have this exact same problem, and it happens often enough for it to be very annoying. I also didn't have any issues in VS2008. Ctrl-DoubleClick does restore it, but I'd much rather it didn't happen in the first place.

I'd thought it might be an artifact of my particular setup (I work in a Windows 7 VMWare virtual machine, VPN'ed into my work, then RDP'ed over to my development Windows 2008 server VM), but I guess not since you have it happening in a much simpler environment.

I've also been unable to find any way of disabling the floating editor windows - nothing obvious in the settings, and still nothing after a trawl through the registry.

Answer 3

Hi, Its not a problem in VS 2010 - it is useful when u r working on a lot of views at the same time. Here's a way to disable it. In the Menu -> Window -> "Reset Window Layout". It'll ask you to confirm, do it & it'll bring back your entire layout as it was originally. I had the same issue & i got this resolved. Let me know if it doesnt work.

Thx ! Raviku