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12 November 2006: Released version 1.4 of VSFileFinder2005

8 November 2006: Released version 1.3 of VSFileFinder2005

6 August 2006: Released version 1.2 of VSFileFinder2005

17 June 2006: Released version 1.1 of VSFileFinder2005

10 June 2006: Updated the 2005 version of VSFileFinder with some bug fixes and a new installer

4 June 2006: New version of VSFileFinder added for use with Visual Studio 2005

19 July 2005: Uploaded correct version of VSTabs (the 10 July 2005 update was an old version)

10 July 2005: New version of VSTabs

9 May 2005: Quick update for VSTabs installer

8 May 2005: New versions of VSTabs and VSFileFinder

14 June 2004: Added keyboard shortcuts chart

12 June 2004: Updated VSTabs and VSFileFinder, added forums

5 June 2004: Site uploaded

VSFileFinder2005 is an updated version of the file finder tool for Visual Studio 2005. This version is completely rewritten in C# and includes a new setting screen that integrates with the Visual Studio Options dialog.

Changes:

• Version 1.4: Various bug fixes: (12 November 2006)
  
  • Fixed sorting by date
  • Fixed issues with non-existent files
• Version 1.3: Various improvements and bug fixes: (8 November 2006)
  (thanks to Ricardo Sabino for lots of new features and suggestions)
  • New context menu to access sort options
  • New last access time column (handy for finding files that you have recently worked on)
  • Added tooltips so the full name of each item can be displayed
  • Fixed annoying error message when opening .dmp files
  • Fixed typo in the options dialog
• Version 1.2: Fixes for Visual Studio Team Edition (6 August 2006)
• Version 1.1: Various improvements from Marc Templin: (17 June 2006)
  • Column widths are now saved correctly
  • The search box now receives focus when activated to allow for quick searching
• Version 1.0: First version (10 June 2006)
• Version 1.0 (preview): Preview release (4 June 2006)

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VSFileFinder2003 is a Visual Studio 2003 Add-In that helps you find files quickly in large projects. It can list files from all the project types that Visual Studio supports.

After installing, you will see a new window in the IDE listing all the files in your current solution. By typing just a few letters from any part of a filename, you can quickly narrow down the list of files and open the file you're interested in.

This can be far quicker than the Solution Explorer or the file open dialog in large projects as files can be spread over many folders and you might only remember part of a file name.

There are options to highlight or exclude files based on the file name so you can quickly get to the files you want.

Once you have installed the add-in, you may like to set up a keyboard short cut for the "VSFileFinder.Connect.ShowVSFileFinder" command so you can use VSFileFinder without moving your hands from the keyboard.

As featured in Hack #17 of Visual Studio Hacks: Tips and Tools for Turbocharging the IDE

Changes:

• Version 3.1.1: Added a new installer and changed a few resources (8 May 2005)
• Version 3.1: Fixed bug where pressing enter in the list control could open the wrong file (12 June 2004)

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VSTabs replaces the document tabs in Visual Studio 2003 with an enhanced tab control.

Note: This version does not work with Visual Studio 2005. The addin worked with some of the earlier betas but the changes between Beta 2 and the final version make this kind of addin a lot harder to write.

Features include:

• new look tabs with gradient fills
• tab combining to save space (eg .cpp and .h files show on one tab)
• tabs can be closed by middle clicking on them

This add-in is inspired by the excellent WndTabs for Visual Studio 6 (although this add-in doesn't have anywhere near as many features).

There are a few things that are not finished in this version but it should still be useful. In particular, the tab window occasionally doesn't update correctly and there is no right click context menu for the tabs. Suggestions and/or code changes welcome!

After installing, you can turn the tab control on and off using the Tools->Add-in Manager option.

Please think of this version as a "Technology Preview" rather than a full release - there are quite a few bugs in this version but it is still useful (to me at least).

If you would like to contribute any code changes, the easiest way would be to email me a zip file with the complete source code including your changes and I will do the rest.

As featured in Hack #23 of Visual Studio Hacks: Tips and Tools for Turbocharging the IDE

Version 3.5 (10 July 2005)

• Added close button (Nakano Daiki)
• Improved handling of read only file in the Japanese version of Visual Studio (Nakano Daiki)
• Increased scroll speed (Nakano Daiki)
• Added support for various aspx/ascx file types (Volodymyr)

Version 2.0 (8 May 2005)

A big thank you to Mike Cline for lots of new features in this version!

• Visual changes
  • Coloured coded tabs (Mike Cline):
    • Red tab for current document
    • Green tabs for source code
    • Blue tabs for non source code
    • Grayer shades of green and blue represent read-only files
  • Removed the border around the sub-tab (too many lines were confusing to look at) (Mike Cline)
  • Added some horizontal space in between the tabs to visually separate them (Mike Cline)
• Other new features
  • Added tab scrolling (me)
• Other stuff
  • Sub-tabs no longer show "[Read Only]". Removing this saves lots of space if you are using a source-control system. A bunch of people on the VSTabs forum wanted this. (Mike Cline)
  • Files with no extension now show up. In the previous version, there was no tab for these. (Mike Cline)
  • Added a new test project to test the tab control without running Visual Studio (me)
• Installer
  • Rewritten installer using WiX (me)
  • Added support for Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 (me)

Version 1.1 (12 June 2004)

• Updated installer

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This is my attempt at a Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts chart. The first page lists the main shortcuts, the second page lists the resource editor shortcuts (so only print page one unless you want both). This is based on the default keyboard setup and might be slightly orientated to C++ development (I think I ignored some database stuff to keep the size down).

You are welcome to email me updates or corrections.

Download (zipped Word document)