Solution navigation

re: Solution navigation

jokiz — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:19:43 GMT

hi anson, i like resharper's navigation by class name/filename better.

re: Solution navigation

Bjarne Brusen — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:02:33 GMT

JetBrains have made a very nice AddOn to visual studio, named Resharper (R#).
One of its features is to search for/open files based on filename or classname, using a small center-screen dialog with intellisense, that disappears after opening the file.

Community Convergence II

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:00:25 GMT

This week I heard a number of people on the C# team talking about the hot new gaming technology for Windows and the Xbox called XNA. The big news is that a beta of the XNA Game Studio Express is available as a free download.

re: Solution navigation

Michael Hale — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:50:03 GMT

Here is another free alternative for file navigation. It pops up a little window temporarily in the center of the screen that lets you filter through all your classes, functions, variables and navigate to any of them in your solution quickly without touching the mouse.

ResponseGreat point Michael! I intend to write another post about logical instead of physical navigation where I'll talk about different tools (either built-in or add-ins) that allow navigation between types and members.

re: Solution navigation

Daniel Tang — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:21:40 GMT

I think in the field of the add-in that Michael linked, it would be a lot more keyboard friendly if you could do project filtering without using your mouse. For example, if you wanted to filter by the FileNavigatorAddIn project you could type in File/Program.cs, assuming Program.cs was under that project. The slash would delimit between the project and file name, and both could be used for partial searches in project and file names.

re: Solution navigation

Iggy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:34:19 GMT

Don't know about you guys, but this works fast for me if I know the file name.

Ctrl+Alt+A (brings up the command window)

of <filename>

of is the command to open file. It is the same as the file combobox.

re: Solution navigation

Fudomyo — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:46:19 GMT

I for one just hate the Ctrl-Tab window. I am just so used to pattern matching what was last on the screen, that switching to reading a tiny file name just throws me. Where's my big switch statement I was just working on....

$0.02

Andrew

re: Solution navigation

Harry M — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:51:59 GMT

I use launchy to index .cs files. Not quite as precise, but it is very quick.