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Pinning tabbed editors

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Pinning tabbed editors

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- [Instructor] One of my favorites features in the tab well is called tab pinning. It lets you keep your favorite editing windows visible in the tab well, no matter how chaotic your editing workflow. It's a simple concept, let me show you. I already five files open. The first three are from my console application and the last two are from my web application. It's the last two that I want to pin. To pin a tab, you go to the tab and you click on this "Toggle Pin Status" button. And when you pin it, it goes to the left side of the tab well. Let's do it for monster card too. So far, it's not that impressive. The only way you can tell though is our tab, is because of the icons are showing here that shows toggle pin status is on. And when you look at this one, it's got a slightly different icon. And here's where it gets interesting. Let's imagine instead of five tabs open, you have 20 tabs open. And I want to close all the tabs, except for my two pinned tabs. That's easy to do. Right click…

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