In VS 2005, go to community >> send feedback and click the make a suggestion link. Search for "2005 tabs left right" and you'll find it...

I finally go around to upgrading this weekend, and this is the only thing I really really really hate...

I agree. It is truly annoying!

I usually defend MS but their reasoning overlooked the most common way I open lots of files; from the Find window. If I'm searching for some code I've used elsewhere, I may cycle through half a dozen files or more. Now the file I was working with has gone and I have to remember to look elsewhere.

When I want to close the searched files I just opened, I have to click on the far right side (where the document close icon [X] is, but I have to keep looking at the far right where the document gets closed to make sure I don't accidentally close too many. At least before, closing the last opened document didn't move all the other document tabs over by one.

I also don't like the new find window because I can no longer see all my choices and options - I now have to activate the dropdown to determine what files I'm searching. In the past, I just had to tab through and then press enter, very easy to do with just a laptop keyboard. Now when I tab to the Look in dropdown, I have to move my hand to use the arrow keys to cycle those choices.

If anyone finds out MS fixes or modifies these features, please post a response here.

Thanks.

I think it is only annoying the first few days, then you realize, its conveineant,... you get the drop down list with a full list of pages at the right near the solution explorer, which makes it easy....

your last opened, or last active doc tends to appear in the far left, so that it is near the tool box, save options and things like that... and you are less likely to accidently close a window you are working on.

if you want to complain about vs 2005... i would ask why does it freeze and think so much about things like opening a file sometimes :-)