Most of the times we need to refer to the folder path containing the project in Visual Studio platform, for that we need to go to Windows Explorer and then search for the folder name containing the project you are currently working on, then select the folder for further actions.Now by using this tip we can directly add the “Windows Explorer” in Visual Studio Tools menu for easy access. And by selecting the “Windows Explorer” option from the Tools menu we can directly go to the folder containg currently edited file selected of the running project in Visual Studio environment.
Steps to Create new menu option in Tools Menu section :
1.Open the any ASP.NET Project using Visual Studio .
2.Click Tools menu, then External Tools… option from Tools Menu, then click Add.
3.Now enter the following data in respective textbox provide:
Title: Windows Explorer
Command: explorer.exe
Arguments: /select,”$(ItemPath)”
4.Just leave Initial directoy textbox as blank, and click OK.
5.Now click on Tools menu, Windows Explorer option.
Windows Explorer will open the folder path for the current project with selected the current file we are working on.