How to open files in one instance using Visual Studio?

Question

I edit files directly from FTP and like to use Visual Studio, however VS seems to open each file in a new instance of VS instead of a new tab. I believe this is because it's a file without a solution/project.

How can I force VS to open multiple separate files inside one multitabed window?

Answer 1

I had the same problem This worked for me :

In Filezilla go to Edit > Settings > File editing on the "Use custom editor" radio button, enter the following: NB: the space between quatation mark and forword slash is important " /edit

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /edit

or

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /edit