Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspxA quick note on why I blog about Visual Studio 2003 aka Everett - Its a released product so devs are probably interested in knowing its power features and tips and tricks. I was heavily involved in getting it released for the C# team, so I have a somewhaten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)re: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#72717Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:35:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:72717Frans Boumahmm. I have that unchecked for ages, but when I load a 10 project solution that's in sourcesafe, the solution explorer flashes a lot. Not that it bothers me, I just wondered why unchecking that checkbox isn't limiting the flashing here... :)re: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#72742Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:19:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:72742Michael TeperAnd on another note: what am I giving up by turning that option off?Thank you thank you thank youhttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#72746Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:22:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:72746DonNow it no long screws up my solution explorer every time I switch tabs! <br> <br>You have soooo made my day! <br>re: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#72810Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:31:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:72810shaykatcAh, ok. To answer Frans &amp; Michaels questions - perhaps by flashiness Frans you mean the redraw that happens when you open a large project? I realized that my posting is unclear - the flashiness that I refer to is the different files being highlighted as the editor cycles through them to open them. <br>Thats essentially what Track Active Item does - when you select a file tab in the editor, it highlights the file in solution explorer. So when you open all these files, the highlight goes back and forth, and opens projects that may be closed - causing a flashiness. When you turn the setting off, the active file isnt selected in the editor anymore.Some Great VS 2003 Tipshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#82812Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:18:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:82812Scooblogre: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#82859Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:35:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:82859Chris MonachanThis option when it was introduced made working with large solutions something that was possible again. <br> <br>Often I'd scroll to the top of the solution explorer to find a file in a folder that I wanted to paste in some text to. Goto the file I had open in the editor to do my Copy operation.... bang my solution explorer was now miles away from where I was navigating too and had 'synced' to the item in the editor. <br> <br>What would be amazing would be the ability to one time sync the solution explorer to the active document in the editor. A button or something callable by macro code. I think I've mentioned this to another blogger that said it wouldn't be in for the next version, but perhaps the next. re: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#83353Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:21:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:83353John S.Chris' request seems like a candidate for a dev studio macro to me.. <br>re: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#84272Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:57:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:84272Dennis R.Is there any way to improve the scroilling performace of the class view? Scrolling class view in a project with several hundred classes is excruciatingly sloooow... <br>Shaykat's Visual Studio 2003 Tipshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#89282Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:89282Code/Tea/Etc...Shaykat's Visual Studio 2003 Tipshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#89290Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:03:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:89290Code/Tea/Etc...LSN WebLog &raquo; Shaykat&#8217;s Visual Studio 2003 Tipshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#100651Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:32:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:100651TrackBackLSN WebLog &amp;raquo; Shaykat&amp;#8217;s Visual Studio 2003 Tipsre: Visual Studio 2003 tip #1: Stop the solution explorer flashiness when opening a project!http://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#113554Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:47:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:113554tonyyes I aggree.Shaykat's Visual Studio 2003 Tipshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shaykatc/archive/2004/02/13/72703.aspx#220132Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:17:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:220132Code/Tea/Etc.