{"id":8658,"date":"2016-01-13T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/utility-for-renaming-visual-studio-windows\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:57:30","slug":"utility-for-renaming-visual-studio-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/utility-for-renaming-visual-studio-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility for Renaming Visual Studio Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimmal.com\/\">Gimmal<\/a> has a wide array of products, and most of those products have gone through multiple releases.&#160; This means that I often find myself running two or three instances of Visual Studio with different versions of the same solution.&#160; Trying to tab between them while keeping tabs on which version goes with which instance can be fairly confusing.&#160; Fortunately, there is a utility written by <strong>Erwin Mayer<\/strong> with some very cool options for renaming your Visual Studio windows to help identify them more easily.&#160; I just installed it and I&#8217;m really liking it, plus it works in Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/f3f23845-5b1e-4811-882f-60b7181fa6d6\"><strong>Rename Visual Studio Window Title<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snippet from the gallery (click on the link above to see all about it):<\/p>\n<p>This lightweight extension will 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.<\/p>\n<p>It can also be configured so that the renaming rules apply only when at least two instances of Visual Studio are running with the same window title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gimmal has a wide array of products, and most of those products have gone through multiple releases.&#160; This means that I often find myself running two or three instances of Visual Studio with different versions of the same solution.&#160; Trying to tab between them while keeping tabs on which version goes with which instance can&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42528,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/42528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}