Monday, 5 November 2007

Quickly navigating solution explorer in Visual Studio

First post!11!1!!1

Often in Visual Studio I find scrolling around the solution explorer can be a bit of a hassle - if you are moving between files in different projects it can take some time to find the file you want. In order to cut out this annoyance, I have this handy tip:

Install launchy (http://www.launchy.net/), a keystoke application launcher, and get it to index .cs files in your solution directory. Now all you need to do to get to a file in Visual Studio is hit alt+space and type the file name and voila!

Its probably also worth enabling "Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Track active item in solution explorer" otherwise Visual Studio gets left behind.


Submit this story to DotNetKicks

1 comments:

Dave Newman said...

Dude! Resharper is the way : )

Ctrl+N