Auto select file in Solution Explorer from its open tab

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Normally  many files in Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010 are opened in many tabs  while massively working on a project  Many times  I find myself right-clicking on a tab title and searching for Show Select Scroll-to this file in Solution Explorer  and I can t find it   Is there a way to automatically select an opened file in Solution Explorer

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This isn t exactly what you re looking for  but it would automatically select the  active  file in the Solution Explorer   Tools-- Options-- Projects and Solutions-- Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

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I don t know if you can do it on-demand  but you can enable the option  Track Active Item in Solution Explorer   Tools- Options- Projects and Solutions- General  which will always select the active tab item in the solution explorer

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It s in VS2012 - Specifically the 2-Arrow icon at the top of the solution explorer  Left Right arrows  one above the other   This automatically jumps to the current file   This icon is only visible if you ve got Track Active Item in Solution Explorer disabled

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The Tab Studio plugin adds  select in solution explorer  to the right click menu on tabs

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That s the screenshot of the answer for your question

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The best option now is to install the Microsoft Visual Studio add on called Productivity Power Tools   With this comes  Solution Navigator   alternative to Solution Explorer  with a lot of benefits  - which then you can use to filter the files to only show  Open   You can even filter files to show  Edited  and  Unsaved

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Another option is to bind  View TrackActivityInSolutionExplorer  to a keyboard short-cut  which is the same as  Tools-- Options-- Projects and Solutions-- Track Active Item in Solution Explorer   If you activate the short-cut twice the file is selected in the solution explorer  and the tracking is disabled again   Visual Studio 2013   There is now a feature built in to the VS2013 solution explorer called Sync with Active Document  The icon is two arrows in the solution explorer  and has the hotkey Ctrl      S to show the current document in the solution explorer  Does not enable the automatic setting mentioned above  and only happens once

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I ve put in a feature request for this very feature  Although I know this isn t an answer in itself it is a step in the direction of being able to get this feature implemented  Any votes it it may help to get Microsoft s attention   As far as I m aware of though there is no way to do this other than possibly writing a macro or creating your own add-in extension to Visual Studio

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There s a very nice extension to VS2010  which does exactly this  Solution Explorer Tools   This extension adds a button which selects the current file in the solution explorer  as well as convenient buttons for collapsing and expanding projects

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In Visual Studio 2012  the same can be done using the  Sync With Active Document  option in Solution Explorer

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If you re using the ReSharper plugin  you can do that using the Shift   Alt   L shortcut or navigate via menu as shown

[visual-studio] Auto select file in Solution Explorer from its open tab

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