Favorites Menu for Visual Studio

Introduction

Favorites Menu for Visual Studio, is aFREE add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. This add-in will help in marking your frequently used files as your favorites within Visual Studio IDE and then you can access these any time and inside Visual Studio Environment.

Background

Being a .NET developer for years, I was involved in various projects over the years. Thus involving in development of many generic helper class files (an Encryption class and a Error Logging class etc), which can be reused elsewhere too. But then in a new project, sometimes the same requirement to develop a Logging class would appear. Thus, I would start searching for the files I developed, either to reuse or to extend. That is when I got the idea, why don't have an Favorites menu inside Visual Studio itself. This is what sparked the inspiration for development of this add-in. If you are like me, and have developed many files, which you want to keep it at your finger tips for reference, this add-in is for you.

What does Favorites Menu for Visual Studio do?

This add-in will install a new menu calledFavorites inside your Visual Studio IDE. You will also see a new solution explorer like dockableMy Favorites window. The add-in allows you to add any file to make it as your favorite file. This is very much similar to Internet Explorer's Favorites or the Firefox's bookmarks feature. You can access these files anytime, just by opening My Favorites window. The add-in also has a tagging feature and hence you can tag your file when marking them as your favorite. Tagging a file allows you to categorize your favorites and also helps you while searching for favorites. Within My Favorites window you can search favorites using the tags. Apart from these you have option of editing/adding tags any time you want. You can also remove files from your favorites. Look at the screenshots below and know more about working of this add-in.

Features

• Adding file as your favorite.
• View or open your favorite(s).
• Delete selected favorites.
• Add/Edit tags to your favorite(s).
• Search favorite(s) based on tags.
• Open containing folder of your favorite file.
• Copy path of favorite to clipboard.
• Free!

Screenshots