Features comparison chart

	Visual Studio built-in tab strip	Document Well Plus free extension, included in Productivity Power Tools	Tabs Studio commercial extension	Visual Docs free extension
Style rules	X	(V) Properties: only background color and label color Conditions: only project based or document name regex	V Supports many visualization properties through scripting Supports almost any condition through scripting	V Supports many visualization properties through user-friendly UI Supports almost any condition through user-friendly condition editor Library with predefined style rules
Grouping related documents into a single tab	X	X	V	V
Pinning	(V) Only from VS2012	V	X	V
Drag and drop	V	(V) Pinned tabs cannot be reordered	V	V Even between regular document strip, pinboard and bird’s-eye view
Scrolling the document strip	X	V	X	V Scrollbar shows miniature views of all open tabs, highlighting the ones that are currently in view
Configurable insertion behavior	(V) Inserts a tab to the left or right, moving it into view	(V) Inserts a tab to the left or right, scrolling to it	X	V Inserts a document to the left or right, moving it into view or scrolling to it
Docking	X Tabs are always at the top	(V) Tabs are at the top, bottom, left or right	V Any position as a docked, floating or tabbed window	V Any position as a docked, floating or tabbed window
Bird’s-eye view	X	X	X	V