Open folders in Window Explorer in Visual Studio 2008
Posted on 11/14/2007 7:12:09 PM
in #Visual Studio
Hi,
One of the features that I use very regularly in Visual studio 2008 is the Open folder in Windows Explorer. Many a times we want to do something with the actual without the use of Visual Studio.
A common scenario is to change the connection string in the Web.config screen locally without checking in the Web.config file. What I do is go to the physical path and change the property of the file and make it editable.Now I open the file in a Notepad and update the connectionstring. This is many a times required to check for issues with different kind of data.
For cases like these I really like the feature of the visual studio on how easily I can open the working folder. All I need to do is click on the file (or project) right click (to get the context menu) and click on “Open folders in Window Explorer” to open the respective folder.
Thanks
Vikram
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Posted on 12/30/2007 2:13:54 AM
Huh. 6 years after IntelliJ, as usual. Here's a usability example for you - in IntelliJ, I hit Ctrl+shift+O and whatever is currently selected (file in the tree) or is under my cursor is opened in Explorer. None of that click here click there stuff.
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