Copyright © 2016-2025 Anthony Fung

Working Files List is a Visual Studio extension that shows a vertically stacked list of documents that have been opened in the editor, in a tool window.

Version 1.7.0 and above is compatible with Visual Studio 2022. For compatibility with earlier versions of Visual Studio, please use version 1.6.x

Note: This extension does not have a digital signature; file hash sums are listed below (for version 1.8.1). Alternatively, the full source code for this extension is available to enable building your own copy.

• MD5: B96581178C4EE9ECC13706668C34D656
• SHA1: 16A93CC6CD82EE3C3159DC64C50249FA164EB7F4
• SHA256: 2C101472182DBB146294C5506A62E400763B4EC54613924FDB8B4EE51FAAE92F

Features

• Sort by document project name
• Sort by document name/recently used order
• Group by project
• Automatically assign list entry colours based on project
• Optionally show parent directories names for each open document
• File type icons
• Ability to pin files

Getting Started

After installing, select [View] -> [Other Windows] -> [Working Files List] on the menu bar within Visual Studio. Any open documents should be listed in the tool window.

• Left-clicking on an item in the list activates the tab for that document.
• Middle-clicking on an item closes that file.
• Hover the mouse over an item to show its full name in the tool tip.
• Right-clicking opens -tests file (opens Tests.extension, e.g. MyFile.cs => MyFileTests.cs)
• Double-left-clicking on an item (in the unpinned files area) pins/unpins the file

Release Notes (v1.8.1)

• Fixed bug causing WorkingFileList to crash when starting Visual Studio.

Full version history can be found at

https://github.com/Ant-f/WorkingFilesList/releases

Resources

For further information including user guide, see the wiki

https://github.com/Ant-f/WorkingFilesList/wiki