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Did you know... the Solution Explorer supports type-ahead selection? - #152

I've been coming up with little songs to keep sane as I post a daily tip for Visual Studio.  Beth Massi swears she'll catch me on tape singing these one day.  One of them is to the tune of Dunkin' Donuts (i think it's their jingle) of "gotta make the donuts" which is "gotta do tip of the day"  Another one I'm trying to perfect is to Phil Collins's "come dance into the Light" with "It's the simple things in life!"  Sad, but true. 

Today's tip is really cool.  I didn't know this one until a coworker showed me, and this was after 5 years working on the Visual Studio team.

the Solution Explorer supports type-ahead selection, so wherever your current focus + selection is in the tree view, just start typing the full name of your file, and the focus + selection will jump to that match, partial or full.

solution explorer supports type-ahead selection

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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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BioSensorAB » Did you know… the Solution Explorer supports type-ahead selection? - #152 said:

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# February 15, 2008 6:52 AM

vikram said:

Wow, This was really refereshing to know. You are doing a very good job innposting these. Keep the good work going......

# February 15, 2008 7:30 AM

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# February 15, 2008 8:47 AM

Mark Wisecarver said:

Sing this one:

(To the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell")

Sara is the Best! Sara is the Best!

Our Hats are off to Microsoft, Sara is the Best!

# February 15, 2008 8:51 AM

gerrod said:

Hi Sara - have you tried ReSharper? With it installed, you can go to any class in your solution using Ctrl+N (or any file with Ctrl+Shift+N). And it supports partial matches as well as wildcards - so to go to class 4 you could just type "C4".

My 2c!

# February 15, 2008 8:55 AM

Jordan said:

Unfortunately, it doesn't search into collapsed Solution/Project folders.  Maybe you could suggest that...

Thanks - Jordan

# February 15, 2008 10:18 AM

Eber Irigoyen said:

been using this for a long time, doesn't this feature work for most trees in Windows?

note 1: you have to type a little bit fast

note 2: hitting the same key multiple times, say "C", will take you through all the files that begin with "C"

# February 15, 2008 12:07 PM

Marco Breveglieri said:

It seems the trick is working only on expanded nodes: the type-ahead selection doesn't target the collapsed source file nodes (maybe "by design"?).

# February 15, 2008 12:37 PM

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# February 17, 2008 2:01 PM

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# February 17, 2008 2:28 PM

Steven Harman said:

+1 on ReSharper!

And with the <a href="http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/02/15/resharper-4.0-eap-nightly-builds-are-now-available.aspx">upcoming 4.0 release</a> you can now use CamelHumps in all of the code completion, IntelliSense, and navigational shortcuts in ReSharper. Hott!

# February 17, 2008 3:40 PM

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# February 17, 2008 5:11 PM

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# February 18, 2008 8:19 AM

Luke Terheyden said:

Also, Ctrl-Alt-L will show / focus Solution Explorer (with the general developer keyboard layout).

# February 18, 2008 1:33 PM

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# February 20, 2008 2:52 AM

Igor said:

Yeap, the same behavior exist in SQL Server as well.

# February 21, 2008 6:20 PM

xjb said:

本篇包括tip151-tip160http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-16.html#151、意外...

# December 25, 2008 9:31 PM
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