Visual Studio Folder Explorer

Explore your drives and folders from inside VS online or offline.

Sometimes I want to explore my folders from inside Visual Studio instead of Alt-Tab’ing to Windows Explorer; there are already excellent tools to do that on the Gallery. But what they do is ephemeral; as soon as you close your session your folder structure is gone. What is more, they don’t let me annotate the folders that I am interested in or eliminate uninteresting ones from view without deleting them. On the other hand, I sometimes need to have different sets of the folders persisted so that I can concentrate on them later on. Furthermore, I also need to bring home the folder structure of some servers I have been using at work and persist some comments about them.

So, it is not just a question of exploring the file system from VS.