Does this tool exist?
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
Shaffer wrote:
I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution.
Uh, why not? Marc
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
Xplorer2 does what you ask for. http://zabkat.com/[^] Xplorer2 is an an excellent dual pane, multi-tab, windows explorer replacement. If you pay for it, you also get a file search tool that is more powerful and less cumbersome than the windows search tool. DonM
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
If you aren't doing it yet, I suggest you should look into a source control solution of some kind as well. I'm mentioning it because from your description it doesn't seem like you're doing that.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Shaffer wrote:
I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution.
Uh, why not? Marc
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I would recommend organizing all of your source code into a Visual Studio solution.
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We are talking about a project that hundreds of people work on. I've been in this group for 2 months. I don't think my voice carries that much weight yet :-( Additionally, a lot of these files aren't source code. We aren't using Visual Studio to build all source code either, for various (and valid) reasons.
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If you aren't doing it yet, I suggest you should look into a source control solution of some kind as well. I'm mentioning it because from your description it doesn't seem like you're doing that.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Xplorer2 does what you ask for. http://zabkat.com/[^] Xplorer2 is an an excellent dual pane, multi-tab, windows explorer replacement. If you pay for it, you also get a file search tool that is more powerful and less cumbersome than the windows search tool. DonM
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
Shaffer wrote:
I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for
Well I'm still using XP too on one of my machines and what you described works perfectly in XP's explorer. With one serious drawback of course: If the delay between two characters is a wee bit to long XP "thinks" it is a new "search". Then you'll have to start typing from the beginning of the filename again. I haven't looked into this yet, but there should be a way to set the interval to a larger value. If I only had any idea what the name of this "feature" is. Cheers!
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Shaffer wrote:
I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for
Well I'm still using XP too on one of my machines and what you described works perfectly in XP's explorer. With one serious drawback of course: If the delay between two characters is a wee bit to long XP "thinks" it is a new "search". Then you'll have to start typing from the beginning of the filename again. I haven't looked into this yet, but there should be a way to set the interval to a larger value. If I only had any idea what the name of this "feature" is. Cheers!
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Shaffer wrote:
Out of my control. Legacy code, political issues, money, etc, you get the idea...
Well, the reason I asked was because I figure, you could perhaps use the Eclipse or Sharp Develop IDE (both free) to at least manage the folders/files. I don't think Visual Studio Express (which is free) will work because I don't believe it supports folders in solutions. And as others have said, you should also get a good source control system. Some of those have very nice client IDE's that may help in organizing the files as well. Marc
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Shaffer wrote:
Out of my control. Legacy code, political issues, money, etc, you get the idea...
Well, the reason I asked was because I figure, you could perhaps use the Eclipse or Sharp Develop IDE (both free) to at least manage the folders/files. I don't think Visual Studio Express (which is free) will work because I don't believe it supports folders in solutions. And as others have said, you should also get a good source control system. Some of those have very nice client IDE's that may help in organizing the files as well. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I don't think Visual Studio Express (which is free) will work because I don't believe it supports folders in solutions.
It does. It does not however, support multi-language solutions.
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
I am in a similar situation (except for the XP part) and simply use cmd window. To enable tab completion on XP, look at this KB article[^].
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I am in a similar situation (except for the XP part) and simply use cmd window. To enable tab completion on XP, look at this KB article[^].
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
cmd window
DOS box for the win! :cool: That's what I use too; I spend most of my day in a DOS box. At least it's bigger than the cubicle.
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
There is one :-O We have developed a visual system that virtually turns a file system into a hierarchic sets of SQL databases (it's more in some aspects). User can do accurate search and sort on meta properties of files using unlimited expressions (like what is done in SQL) with the help of intellisense, starting from any directory recursively downward. It's unlike the current ones and I am sure you have never seen something like it before. It is under testing, if you are interested, please reply using the e-mail button below and I will send you a (.net WPF 4.0) copy using your e-mail...
modified on Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:01 AM
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
Source Insight http://www.sourceinsight.com/ We use it where I work.
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There is one :-O We have developed a visual system that virtually turns a file system into a hierarchic sets of SQL databases (it's more in some aspects). User can do accurate search and sort on meta properties of files using unlimited expressions (like what is done in SQL) with the help of intellisense, starting from any directory recursively downward. It's unlike the current ones and I am sure you have never seen something like it before. It is under testing, if you are interested, please reply using the e-mail button below and I will send you a (.net WPF 4.0) copy using your e-mail...
modified on Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:01 AM
Are you really thinking he would post his email in this forum? Dream on! Please ignore my stupidity! I ought to go to sleep now, it is 4:30 AM.
modified on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:23 PM
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Are you really thinking he would post his email in this forum? Dream on! Please ignore my stupidity! I ought to go to sleep now, it is 4:30 AM.
modified on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:23 PM
I think the suggestion was to use the e-mail widget and send him his e-mail address, not to publish it here. :)
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I think the suggestion was to use the e-mail widget and send him his e-mail address, not to publish it here. :)
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E-Mail widget? Have I gone blind? Please Luc, tell me where that is already. Yes of course what says email better than "email". Somehow I've always seemed to ignore that link! My bad! Think I'd better go to bed now. :)
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I have to use Windows XP as my desktop environment. I don't have the luxury of having all of my source code organized into a Visual Studio solution. Many of the source code directories have hundreds of files. I find myself clicking on files in explorer quite a bit but many of these directories have hundreds of files. Scrolling down to find a file or group of files is a pain. I can press a character and explorer will find the first file that begins with that character but I wish I could just keep typing and find the file I'm looking for. Windows search is too cumbersome. Does anyone have a suggestion for a tool that would do something similar to this?
--Kevin
Will visual studio express edition (freely available) not do? :~
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