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
Will visual studio express edition (freely available) not do? :~
It was ever thus, the Neophiles will always rush out and get 'The Latest Thing' at a high price and with all the inherent faults - Dalek Dave.
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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
Um, I just tried typing a filename into the address bar (after a backslash, of course), and it does the trick very nicely.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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
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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
The fact that this project involves other programmers doesn't necessarily prevent you from creating a Visual Studio project and/or solution to manage it.
Software Zen:
delete this;
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And I have amended my vote! :-D
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Um, I just tried typing a filename into the address bar (after a backslash, of course), and it does the trick very nicely.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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
Have you tried using TortoiseSVN .. It's free and a lot of larger companies are using it to manage there code base.
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Have you tried using TortoiseSVN .. It's free and a lot of larger companies are using it to manage there code base.
Dale Hoover wrote:
Have you tried using TortoiseSVN
Use it all the time. :) 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