I finally found it! With each successive version of Visual Studio, I would test the macro recording feature to see whether it would record Tab Settings. I wanted to make a macro that set everyone's Tabs on a team to be the same. Thanks to Josh Ledgard, the Visual Studio - Community Team PM, I have found the answer for Visual Studio 2003! One just needs to create a Reg file to set the values properly in the registry!
Josh's article includes the location for other defaults such as
- window layouts
- keybindings
- toolbar/menus configuration
- custom toolbox settings
I may use the last one there, as well. Each of the ones mentioned here, though requires file editing or replacing.
There is some other technology available to people with Universal License or Enterprise Architect/Developer. It's called Enterprise Templates.
Looks like the slowly decaying database pulls through again! Keep a link here, 'cause I'll paste in the Reg file text for the One True Way to configure tabs. :-)
