Did you know... How to have the Solution Explorer always show (or not show) the file currently opened in the Editor? - #161

re: Did you know... How to have the Solution Explorer always show (or not show) the file currently opened in the Editor? - #161

Simon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:17:31 GMT

I am still using the Beta version of VS2008 so I dont know if this is resolved but this tip doesnt work with solution folders if they are not expanded

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Björn — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:16:50 GMT

I still remember how annoyed I was by the tracking feature in VS2002 (yep, I used it) and how glad I was to see it disabled by default in the successors. This sort of bears the question: why was this feature deemed useable? And what happened to the "Sync with/in class view" context menu item? The latter might be an Express SKU or C++ vs C# issue, though...

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Stephen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:35:19 GMT

I've been using this feature for a while. However, items in a collapsed solution folder in VS2005 are not tracked. I have to open the root solution folder to get the item to track correctly.

Is there a way to get Solution Explorer to expand the solution folder if it contains the active item?

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Ghislain Hivon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:26:24 GMT

Is there a shortcut to go to the current open document in the solution explorer (like the Track Active Item option but as an "one shot use") ?

Thank You

Ghislain

re: Did you know... How to have the Solution Explorer always show (or not show) the file currently opened in the Editor? - #161

Dave Woods — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:37:30 GMT

You have made me very happy today!

re: Did you know... How to have the Solution Explorer always show (or not show) the file currently opened in the Editor? - #161

Steve — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:41:57 GMT

Ideally I would love to have the context menu option to sync, but the following works a a decent alternative...

You can put the 'Track Active Item' command on your toolbar (by customizing the toolbar...I think this is under View command perhaps I forget).

I typically leave it off, but when I want to sync the Solution explorer, I just click the button (which syncs) and then click again to turn it back off.

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Olmo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:44:31 GMT

Ghislain, you should use cool commands to do so:

http://geekswithblogs.net/brians/archive/2007/03/04/107922.aspx

Now it even works on VS 2008:

http://geekswithblogs.net/SoftwareDoneRight/archive/2007/12/12/coolcommands-in-visual-studio-2008.aspx

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Larry Lard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:56:26 GMT

Stephen, if you find a way, let us know :)

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