For some strange reason the tabs at the bottom of certain designers aren't showing up like they used to in VS.NET; is there some setting I've inadvertently turned off?
e.g. when I double click on a Windows Form and it loads up in the designer, I have to either right click and select "view code" or press F7 to get into code view. The tab(s) that was there in VS.NET have gone missing :(
Hi,
It's possible to configure VS 2005 to either use Tabbed Documents & Multiple documents. Maybe this option is set to 'Multiple Documents'. Choose 'Tools - Options' and check the 'Environment - General' section. If the option 'Window Layout' is set to 'Multiple Documents', set it to 'Tabbed Documents'
Hope this helps,
The reason for the post was that I was following the instructions in the following article and noticed that there was no XML tab in the XML Designer (step 9 of adding a simple type).
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171945.aspx
It was a little late when I created the posting and I didn't bother to check the behaviour of the forms designer in VS.NET 2003 was just going from obviously poor memory ;)
As for the XML Designer, it definitely had Schema and XML tabs in VS.NET 2003 and they are missing in both the new XML Designer and the Dataset Designer.
Being that there are Design and Source tabs for the Windows Forms Designer in VS 2005, it seems likely that the IDE is behaving properly and the article is wrong. i.e. they've done away with the tabs in the XML designers.
Dave
Dave,
Could you mark your own reply as 'answer' so the thread is markes as solved?
Thanks,
Indeed, that article seems to be wrong, probably it has not been updated for VS2005. Anyway, you can switch between design and schema by right clicking the designer/code window and selecting View Code/View Designer from the context menu.
But I'm confused about this one:
"Being that there are Design and Source tabs for the Windows Forms Designer in VS 2005"
I don't have any Design or Source tabs in the Windows Forms Designer in VS2005 (nor in VS2003). Do you have such tabs ?! 
Thanks,