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Discern different projects with colorized tabs

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Discern different projects with colorized tabs

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- [Instructor] I've got lots of files open from different projects and all the tabs are across the top. I can colorize these tabs to help me differentiate which project they belong to by going to my Tools, Options menu and in the Tabs and Windows section, I can scroll down here till I get to this part, to Colorize document tabs. I have three choices. I can colorize them based on their file extension, based on a custom regular expression or, our example, by project. I'll click here and then click OK. Now notice that when I select a tab, like this Monster card, the tab changes to the yellow color. There's also a small bar on the left side right here that's also yellow that tells me that this file, this tab, belongs to the same project. So these two files are part of the same project. Visual Studio selects the colors. So this BookStore class and this Book class comes from my console application and this Robot text file comes from my robot name generator project. Visual studio picked a…

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