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Sebastian Hoitz
Sebastian Hoitz

Reputation: 9393

Plug-in for Visual Studio for quick-searching files in solution

I want to write an Add-In for Visual Studio that provides instant search for the solution explorer. So you press a key combination and while you are typing a list first containing all files of the solution explorer gets narrowed down.

But how can I get access to the solution explorer using C#? Does anyone have some good resources?

Edit: I edited the title, so that it more relates to the content, since all of you posted already made plug-ins.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 2640

Answers (6)

Jasper Bekkers
Jasper Bekkers

Reputation: 6809

Visual Studio is already perfectly capable of doing that; just drag the "Edit.GoToFindCombo" to the toolbar, if it's not already there. (Press Ctrl+D if it is, to activate) and type ">of s" for all files starting with the letter 's'.

Example of the GoToFindCombo with the 'open' command
(source: aaronlerch.com)

The GoToFindCombo is more powerful than this though, you can set aliases ">alias $aliasHere $SomeCommand" for virtually every command in Visual Studio. For example, to make an alias for find in files you type ">alias ff Edit.FindinFiles"

Upvotes: 5

xan
xan

Reputation: 7568

Don't forget Workspace Whiz - it's free for non-commercial use. I can't live without it and just bought a licence. It does many other things too...

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(source: workspacewhiz.com)

Upvotes: 0

Rauld
Rauld

Reputation: 990

Nothing Beats Productivity Tools by Microsoft and its free.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/3a96a4dc-ba9c-4589-92c5-640e07332afd

Upvotes: 0

Piotr Owsiak
Piotr Owsiak

Reputation: 6259

DPack really beats all of them (and moreover it's FREE).
Check out the Alt+U and Alt+M shortcuts (also I recommend others too).

Additionally I have found StudioTools to have very impressive GoTo feature if you want to jump to specific point (type member) in another file (really very fast).

NOTE: R# also has such feature but IMO it's weaker than DPack's version.

Upvotes: 1

Gishu
Gishu

Reputation: 136673

Why re-invent the wheel? DevExpress + Microsoft tied up to offer CodeRush Express for free @ PDC2008 that does just that if I understand you correctly.

AFAIR I think the magic key combo for Jump to File is Ctrl+Alt+F and it does substring matches too. I tried it and it worked for me. Pretty nifty. Here's the link to a recording in case I goofed up on the actual keystroke... some really nice tips in it.

Update: Wrote a blog post for those who're short of time.

Upvotes: 4

Patrick Desjardins
Patrick Desjardins

Reputation: 141013

Sonic File Finder it's free

When you hit the shortcut you have a search box with autocomplete: alt text http://jens-schaller.de/files/images/SonicFileFinder/sonicFileFinderToolWindow.png

Upvotes: 6

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