Visual Studio 2008: Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

Published 21 February 09 08:58 PM | jannemattila 

If you’re working on solution that has many projects and many project items and you tend to get lost between your files... You might want to go to Tools –> Options –> Projects and Solutions and set Track Active Item in Solution Explorer on. For me it was a big relief that I found it. I’m working on project that has quite many projects under the solution and I have found myself constantly “searching” for files that are at the same location as the currently open file. And this is the painkiller for that pain:

 Visual Studio 2008 - Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

I’m not sure but if I have to guess... this was on by default on previous version of VS but not anymore on 2008. Because I know that I have enjoyed this feature in the past :-) But I might be wrong and I have manually set that on in the past too.

Anyways... Happy hacking!

J

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# Click & Solve » Visual Studio 2008: Track Active Item in Solution Explorer said on February 21, 2009 2:27 PM:

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# BEM said on February 22, 2009 11:51 PM:

Sometimes, after VS crashes, the Track Active Item option will get unset.  Makes me crazy.  Gotta have it!

# Frusty said on May 13, 2009 6:39 AM:

that saves me about 20 mins a day trawling my projects (many with files of the same name) - awesome...

VS 2008 does need an overahul...  will they have addressed all issues with 2010... hmmm, may be more!

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