How to search for file names in Visual Studio

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In Eclipse you can search for a file in the project by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-R   Is there a way to do this in Visual Studio

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I d recommend PhatStudio if you re using upto VS 2012  Works pretty fast  and supports multi-word search by using  quot space quot   So to search for LoginController  you could press Alt O and search using  quot Lo Con quot    You could also use ReSharper  paid  and CodeMaid  free  to do this

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Since you mention ReSharper in a comment   You can do this in ReSharper by using the  Goto File     option  Ctrl-Shift-N or ReSharper -  Go To -  File     in my key mappings

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In VS2013 you can click in the solution explorer for this functionality  The shortcut is  ctrl       To search only the names of files  and not the contents  especially in C    uncheck these options

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You can easily call for a window called  Navigate To  with combination ctrl      Or  go to Tools and then click Navigate To

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Open command window  View -  Other windows -  command window - Ctrl   W  A  type  of followed by the file name  It would start showing up the list as you type

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Visual Assist  link   Install  load solution  press Shift Alt O  search for files in solution by substring  Try also Shift Alt S  for the equivalent for symbols  This addin has a bunch of completion popup and syntax colouring stuff in it that aren t to all tastes  but the code browsing features are done well and seem uncontroversial   Judging by comments on the forums  compatibility with Resharper is something they pay attention to   For free  try also Nifty Solution  link   I haven t used this myself  but I use the author s Nifty Perforce plugin  and that is pretty tidy

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In Visual Studio 2017 you can search directly for files with Ctrl 1  Ctrl F  Keyboard command  Edit GoToFile     Alternatively  you can use Ctrl t or Ctrl    the Edit GoToAll command  and start your search with f

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With Visual Studio 2017 Community edition on mac  the shortcut is    Cmd Shift D  Find by file name Cmd Shift T  Find by type name   To see these commands  navigate to the top menu  Search   Go To

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CTRL   P this searches for the file name your direct answer

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Visual Studio for Mac 2017 7 x x To search by File name         Ctrl   Shift   D  To search by Type name   Ctrl   Shift   T  Your keyboard focus might have been gone to following Right side Top corner of the Visual Studio Window

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In Visual Studio 2008  and probably later   the free DevExpress CodeRush Xpress add-in supplies Ctrl Alt F  Quick File Navigation  which searches on an exact substring in the file name or on capital letters    Unrelated to this answer  but note the rather more useful  Quick Navigation  Ctrl Shift Q  which I would have liked to have known about before now  -

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Just for anyone else landing on this page from Google or elsewhere  this answer is probably the best answer out of all of them   To summarize  simply hit   CTRL      And then start typing the file name

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I use usysware DPack  http   www usysware com dpack   Then I just press ALT-U start typing the filename and choose the correct file  DPack also has other nice features       highlights added for screenshot   Note  Will not work in Express editons of Visual Studio  since they don t allow plugins

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In the search dropdown on the standard toolbar  you can use the  open file  macro   of  to find files  Click in said dropdown  or hit Ctrl-D  then start typing  minus the quotes    of CoreEdit cs   and you ll get a dynamic list that narrows as you type

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Visual Studio 2019    Menu -  Preferences -  Key Bindings -  Navigate To

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You can press ctrl t to get a editor Get to all   in which you can type the file name to navigate to that specific file

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With Visual Studio 2017  It now comes with a much better version  named    Go To All    and is bound to the keyboard shortcut CTRL   T as well as CTRL    and includes inline filtering and    fuzzy search     CTRL   T  CTRL

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The best option now is to install Microsoft Visual Studio add on called Productivity Power Tools  VS 2010 version  VS 2013 version    With this comes  Solution Navigator   alternative to Solution Explorer  with a lot of benefits       BTW  this feature is built-in into Visual Studio 2012

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Easily hit CTRL SHIFT T   This will look in the files  names

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Is too simple by using the Windows Explorer search inside the project folder  Done

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