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martinknafve edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 5 revisions

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 projects.

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 will then bring up the incremental file opener:

The top 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. Double-click on a file to open it. Using this method you do not have to manually locate files in 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 files containing folder.
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