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dev.e.loper
dev.e.loper

Reputation: 36064

Key shortcut (hotkey) in Visual Studio to open a file inside your solution?

Is there a key shortcut in Visual Studio to find & open a file inside your solution without using Resharper or any other tools?

Upvotes: 81

Views: 69737

Answers (5)

Vladimir Böhm
Vladimir Böhm

Reputation: 11

Options => Projects and Solutions => Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

Upvotes: 0

Just Shadow
Just Shadow

Reputation: 11941

The accepted solution doesn't work on the newer versions.
For Visual Studio 2022, and 2019, 2017 do the following:

Update 1:
Now, pressing Ctrl + Shift + T and typing the file name works!

Update 2:
Since Visual Studio 2019 now it's possible to do a similar search via Ctrl + Q.
But it works slightly sloppy since it shows VS-related stuff as well.

Original answer:

  1. Press these keys to open the "Go to" popup:
    Ctrl + ,
  2. Type there:
    f Space Filename
  3. Press Enter

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Notes:

  • We are writing f to make VS search only on files. We can also, use other letters. For more info type ? in the "Go to" popup.
  • For more keys and for Visual Studio 2012 to 2015 take a look at this answer.

Upvotes: 146

RichieHindle
RichieHindle

Reputation: 281875

This answer is outdated; see here for latest information.

Not a single keystroke, but yes: `Ctrl+D > o f filename` (so that's five keystrokes before you start typing the filename). It then autocompletes the filename for you.

You need the Find box in the toolbar for this to work.

(If you change your mind about addins, SonicFileFinder is for this very purpose, and free.)

Upvotes: 15

D.Kastier
D.Kastier

Reputation: 3025

Similar to Just Shadow's answer I discover that, on Visual Studio 2017, you can do the following:

Press Ctrl + 1, then f

Or you could go to Tools -> Options -> Keyboard and change the shortcut of Edit.GoToFile for whatever you like.

I replaced mine with: Ctrl + O

Upvotes: 9

mellamokb
mellamokb

Reputation: 56779

You can also use Ctrl + /, which puts the > in place for you automatically.

Upvotes: 11

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