TwinExplorer

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TwinExplorer opens two Explorer windows side by side at the selected files location from the context menu of Solution Explorer. Twin Explorer kills previous instances of Explorer in order to avoid cluttering the desktop, if there are more than 5 Explorer instances already running.

See the changelog for changes and roadmap.

Features

• Open two Explorer windows side by side
  • Select two files or folders, open Explorer at their locations
  • Select one file or folder, open Explorer twice at its location
• Kill previous Explorer instances, keeping at max. 5

Select two files or folders, open Explorer at their locations

Select two files or folders in Solution Explorer and right-click.

Click the command 'Open Explorer side-by-side' in order to open Explorer twice at the locations of the two files/folders.

Select one file or folder, open Explorer twice at its location

Select one file in Solution Explorer and right-click. Click the command 'Open Explorer side-by-side' in order to open Explorer twice at the location of the single selected file.

Kill previous Explorer instances

In order to avoid cluttering the desktop with two many open Explorer windows, the tool kills previous Explorer windows, while keeping at most five instances.

Contribute

Check out the contribution guidelines if you want to contribute to this project.

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools 2015 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

Acknowledgement

This extension was built following Mads Kristensen's awesome presentation at Build 2016.

License

Apache 2.0