Featured Projects in a Great Solution in Visual Studio

Question

Except my apologies, if this was asked, I could not find the match. I have a solution with ... 96 projects. I work 3-4 times at a time. Is there a way to filter, mark as favorites, etc. Projects that interest me now? The problem is aggravated by the fact that the projects are sorted alphabetically and because one of my projects starts in B and the other in T, I always had to scroll down and strain my brain, looking for the right thing. Somewhat disappointing. I do not think that I used folders with solutions. Is that the way?

Answer 1

My recommendation would be to create new solutions and simply add the projects you work with. I assume that there will be other projects on which they depend, in which case you can either add them to your decision or update any links to point directly to the binary files of these other projects.

Answer 2

Although the original question was asked 2 years ago, I would like to offer a solution.

The free Visual Studio funnel extension Funnel provides loading filters for selectively loading project lists. After the initial compilation of all projects (which are necessary to complete all the dependencies), only projects that are really necessary for the current task can be loaded. Load filters can be defined for each aspect of the solution, combined with each other at boot time and shared in teams.

Answer 3

You can use the solution folders for this.

Solution folders are nothing more than meta folders that simply group projects together.

Answer 4

Will there be a “Solution Navigator” from “Power Tools” ?

It allows you to ...

• Find your solution to the end for class members
• Filter the solution or projects to see newly opened files, unsaved files, etc.
• Create multiple instances of the tool window. Each tool window can have a view with a unique coverage. These views can be focused around a single project, class, or file, or even based on search results.

Answer 5

I assume that one thing that can be offered is to switch to VS2010, which has more plugins and integrated functions for searching and browsing faster than in VS2008. Although he still does not have the ability to create links to projects that can be placed in solution folders that create many different relationships.