Also, now that I’m free from the shackles of the MRU tab order, I realise that this post is a bit nastier than it needed to be. Sorry MRU tab order - you do come in handy sometimes. I didn’t mean to get angry.

You save my sanity :-P

ciao

This is really the best post I’ve ever seen online, bar none :) well pr0n doesn’t count.

please put some metatags in so it’s easier to find, maybe “fix visual studio 2005 tab order” ctrl+tab, etc.

thanks again

Now if only someone knows how to disable this amazingly impressively stupid feature of VS2005 which makes a “pop” sound every time I run this macro, as well as displaying a balloon notification…

Does anyone know how to detect such reordered tabs?

I’ll check it out on Monday when I’m back on my windows box.

(Oh, and there is a way to stop the macro notification… but I forget how I did it!)

The idiotic tab order AND even stupider tab **DIALOG** gone in one simple pair of macros =)

This has been one of the most irritating points of VS, made worse by the fact that fools _copy_ it (!), and I can’t thank you enough. I didn’t even know this kind of thing was possible with macros.

I came here looking for something to automatically rearrange tab orders on a windows form, but this is better =) And does anyone else notice that all of ms/vs is now just an attempt to recreate Access?

In summary, you need to add the following to your registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0]
“DontShowMacrosBalloon”=dword:00000006

We need direct programmatic access to the tab bar if we’re to get the behavior we want. Either that, or VS 10 has got to allow it as an option. Tabbed web browsers are simply too widespread these days to cling to old UI paradigms.