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Incremental File Opener, IFO, is an open source add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 which makes it easier to locate files in large Visual Studio solutions.

After installation, a new command called IncrementalOpener.Connect.IncrementalOpener becomes available in Visual Studio. Connect this command to a keyboard shortcut of your choice (such as Ctrl+O). Pressing this keyboard shortcut might, depending on your luck and other factors, bring up the incremental file opener dialog:

The upper part of the dialog displays all the files in your projects. In the bottom of the dialog, you can enter a search phrase. Any file containing the search phrase will be listed in the upper part of the dialog. Any file not containing the search phrase won’t.
Double-click on a file to open it. Using this method you do not have to manually browse through the Visual Studio project explorer.

Less-than-obvious functionality:

• You can use keyboard up / down / page up / page down to move up and down in the list.
• You can use mouse-wheel to scroll up and down.
• You can right click on a file to bring up a context menu which allows you to open the folder which the file is located in with Windows Explorer.