Recently Used Files is a free extension for Visual Studio 2012, 2013 and above, to efficiently manage the files you are currently working on.
This add-in gives you your own dashboard with items you recently worked on in your Visual studio editor,
Provides a Quick and handy way to navigate to these items and manage them.
Applicable to :
Code files in your Visual Studio Project
TFS tasks and bugs that you are working with in the Visual studio editor.
Supported for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
Quick Keyboard shortcuts to access file:
Ctrl+2 to activate plugin,
Up-Down keys to navigate, as well as Tab & Shift-Tab keys
Type first character to go to file
Enter/Space to select,
Delete to remove file from dashboard and editor
Details:
The idea behind this add-in is that for most of our work, we generally work with 3 to 10 files at a time, which belong to a huge solution.
Switching between files in the editor, and finding them again and again is painful.
This add-in gives you buttons to quickly navigate to, and manage the multiple files open in your editor.
Sometimes we close a file in the editor, and have to search the file in the solution to open it again.
Even if the file is closed in the editor, the add-in will maintain a link to the file, so that it can be easily retrieved.
The add-in provides the option of 'Sync' to get your dashboard up-to-date with the open files in the editor, and remove any files that are closed in the Visual studio editor.
Also provides for different ways of sorting the files on the dashboard- alphabetically, or having the most recent file on top.
Has Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+2) to go to the add-in, and also tab order for the files on dashboard.
Auto-populates the dashboard with files open in the solution when a solution is opened.
Has support for vertical and horizontal docking.
Make 'Recently Used Files' your companion in Visual Studio, and make your development more efficient!
In order to install this:
Double-click RecentlyUsedFiles.vsix.
Select the applicable versions and install.
Restart Visual Studio.
It will appear as a menu-item in the Tools menu. You can also activate it by hitting Ctrl+2.
NOTE:
RecentlyUsedFilesis not supported for Express versions of Visual Studio
