Question

Is "Navigate to" one of the "missing" features from Visual Studio Express 2010?

Was it helpful?

Solution

that is indeed missing in the express edition.

OTHER TIPS

Neither navigate to or extensions are included in the express versions of visual studio.

However, I use an external file-search program and it works just as well (Maybe quicker?)

Launchy - which brings a text input to focus in Windows on a keystroke (with a few modified settings):

  • I've changed the keystroke to CTRL + ,
  • Set the Catalog to my current source directory
  • Set only my source file-types be searched
  • Set the Include executables/directories to false
  • Auto open delay to 10ms
  • Check Hide Launchy when it loses focus
  • And Rescan the catalog

Then I just make sure all my source files are set to open with visual studio and as long as they're in my solution, it'll open the file as if I navigated to it in the Solution Explorer.

Bonuses: Launchy uses a more fuzzy search than Navigate To, and doesn't bloat VS's already poor performance.

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