Monday, December 19, 2005

ReSharper: quick navigation among recently accessed files

Today I found out a really very useful feature in ReSharper Visual Studio add-in. I personally use file navigation features a hell of the time, because most of the times classes have relations between them, or you want to see a specific code snippet somewhere else, etc. Visual Studio .NET 2003 doesn't have this feature (in contrast to Visual Studio 2005), so here is ReSharper to the rescue.

When you open Visual Studio .NET 2003 having ReSharper installed, just press CTRL + E and you will see a list of recently accessed files. Veeery, very handy! The name of this comand is "ReSharper.GotoRecentFiles". Besides this really great feature, ReSharper has the possibility to navigate you to a given file from the solution, or to navigate you to a given type - all these kinda "small" goodies, which Java developers are so used to, but most C++ developers like me think as an "innovation" :). Ah, and if you think that this is great, just see the refactoring support coming with this add-in - really awesome! :).

For those of you who are hasn't seen this add-in for Visual Studio .NET 7.0 and 7.1 (currently, there is a beta version for Visual Studio 2005), just go to this ReSharper site.

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