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Thanks to a comment from Steve, you can just right-click on the tab of an open file and select open containing folder. One of those hidden features. So digging in a little further I found that you can map it to a keyboard shortcut File.OpenContainingFolder.
I was trying to figure out how to get to an existing directory in explorer for a file from the solution explorer via a shortcut key. Here is how I did it.
I created a new external tool and set up the following properties.
Then I added it to a global shortcut key.
That is it. Pretty simple huh.
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September 18, 2007 at 4:30 pm
If you right-click on an open file’s tab, there should already be an option to Open Containing Folder. But you do have to open it first. It seems to me that there is a plug-in that does this as well. Nice though!
September 19, 2007 at 8:03 am
Thanks Steve. I forgot that. However, it doesn’t apply to Project Files in the solution explorer though. It would be nice if they put the feature in the context menu.