In earlier versions of VS (2003 for sure, maybe 2005) when you open a project file, the tab opens to the right. In current VS 2008 it always opens to the left, so I have to rearrange them manually. It's time consuming and stupid, since I feel I'm forced to write in the right-to-the-left order. I looked for appropriate settings, but haven;t found anything.
Is this behaviour permanent? Any way to turn it back?
You could try deleting \Visual Studio 2008\Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings (well, backing it up) and rearranging your windows and quitting again -- this is the file where your personal preferences are saved, and it could be possible that it has become corrupted somehow.
The change to the side on which document tabs open was made in Visual Studio 2005. In 2003, new tabs opened on the right. In 2005 and later, new tabs open on the left. Personally, I dislike this behavior, but I've gotten used to it after a few years.
Unfortunately, this behavior is permanent and there isn't a setting to restore it.
It is interesting that this tabs feature makes me dislike Visual Studio every time I use it.
1) It does not open a new document on the right (but on the left instead)
2) Ctrl+Tab is not going to the next tab. (but to the previously used tab instead)
Pretty good score.
No way to change this. Guess I am stupid for not getting used to this.
Commercial Tabs Studio add-in for Visual Studio opens new tab on the right by default and generally allows lots of tab customization.
