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

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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.

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  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.biosensorab.org/2008/02/15/did-you-know-the-solution-explorer-supports-type-ahead-selection-152/

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2008
    Wow, This was really refereshing to know. You are doing a very good job innposting these. Keep the good work going......

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
    You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
    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!

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
    Unfortunately, it doesn't search into collapsed Solution/Project folders.  Maybe you could suggest that... Thanks - Jordan

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
    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"

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
    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"?).

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2008
    +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!

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    February 17, 2008
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    February 18, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2008
    Also, Ctrl-Alt-L will show / focus Solution Explorer (with the general developer keyboard layout).

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2008
    Yeap, the same behavior exist in SQL Server as well.

  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2008
    本篇包括tip151-tip160http://www.watch-life.net/visual-studio/visual-studio-2008-tip-day-16.html#151、意外...