Tip/Trick – Visual Studio to behave more like Eclipse (productivity boost)

Wagner Danda — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:28:48 +0000

I’ve been slowly customizing my Visual Studio with a few neat tricks like when I used to work with Eclipse. I recommend these two as a starting point:

Rock Scroll – Text Highlight with an enhanced scroll bar. Very neat tool to help you visually locate where a variable is used along the code: http://microsoftdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/rock-scroll-visual-studio-plugin.html

Quick Open File – create a shortcut that you like and voila, you can quickly access any file in your project: http://kutny.net/vsopen/

More to come. Cheers!

Tip/Trick: How to Show Active File in Solution Explorer (Visual Studio 2008)

Wagner Danda — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:24:16 +0000

Many thanks to “Ronald Widha” by blogging about this Visual Studio simple trick that allows you to show the active files in Visual Studio (one little feature that I use a lot when working with Eclipse):

One of the most annoying thing about Visual Studio default settings is the fact that the Solution Explorer doesn’t track what files you are currently looking at. Alot of developers thought this was the only way, and had to bear the pain of flicking through the Solution Explorer while scratching their head to figure out ‘where the hell I put this file?’.

There is actually a setting in Visual Studio that does this automatically.

Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

There is actually a setting in Visual Studio that does this automatically.

Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

Just tick the box..and you’re all set!

Just tick the box..and you’re all set!

source: http://www.ronaldwidha.net/2008/11/26/visual-studio-show-active-file-in-solution-explorer/

Thanks Ronald!

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Tip/Trick – Visual Studio to behave more like Eclipse (productivity boost)

Tip/Trick: How to Show Active File in Solution Explorer (Visual Studio 2008)