How to configure a vertical tab layout in Visual Studio

If you have a wide monitor you may prefer to have Visual Studio tabs positioned vertically on the left or right rather than on top of your code files. This is possible from Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4+.

How to configure vertical tabs and an example of what they look like is shown below….

Using vertical tabs in Visual Studio


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