Labs > Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 Extension: Customize Visual Studio Window Title
This lightweight extension will detect whenever two instances of Visual Studio are running with the same window title (or not, can be configured) and change the window title of Visual Studio to include a folder tree with a configurable min depth and max depth distance from the solution/project file, or using special tags.
With default settings, SolutionFolder – Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator) will be rewritten as SolutionFolderParent\SolutionFolder – Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator).
Special tags available are:
- [documentName] name of the active document or window;
- [solutionName] name of the active solution;
- [parentX] parent folder at the specified depth X, e.g. 1 for document/solution file parent folder;
- [parentPath] current solution path or, if no solution open, document path, with depth range as set in settings;
- [ideName].
‘ *’ will be added at the end automatically to identify that the title is being improved.
This is particularly useful when branching a solution/project: it becomes possible to easily identify which branch you are working on, in the case where both would have the same solution/project name.
Feature requests are welcome here. Official repository here. More screenshots are available in this review by Sergey Vlasov.
You can download the VSIX package directly in the Visual Studio Gallery.
9 commentaires
many thanks, exactly what I was looking for!!
First off. Thanks and great job!
Not sure if you’re aware (or care
), but when no project is loaded, granted should rarely happen, the title bar fills with « - * – * – * – * ». Text find/replace issue?
Options:
False
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False
Defaults for all the rest.
Just an update. The new version appears to fix starting with no solution running, but if you open a solution and then close it, the problem starts again. This is under 2010 with SP1; same settings as before. It never removes the solution path and then starts repeating « Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator) * – » over and over. This was as of the version available 1/10/2013.
Again, thanks for the great extension. I can’t tell you how often it has helped me save time and be able to work more comfortably with multiple revisions.
thanks for the plugin. Could you do the same directory change in the recent projects? having multiple version of the same project means i have to hover over each one to see the proper directory….
thanks!
Can you give an option to not show the * after the title? My mind keeps telling me there are unsaved changes when I see that out of the corner of my eye
Great plugin, thanks!
This extension seems like just what I am looking for, but I really never did use an extension with options before. So I am a bit at a loss. Where and how do I set up the extension to show me the full path?
I need to see the full path to be able to differentiate, because I have Projects\Main\ and Projects\Release\.
Hi Inger Marie, you can adjust the options in « Tools » > « Options » > « Rename VS Window Title ». There you probably just need to play with the options labeled « Closest parent folder depth » and « Farthest parent folder depth ».
Cheers
Thanks a lot. It works! This add-on is a great help for me
This is a great extension. Love being able to set properties to get it to look just right for me.
Thanks.