FOR ALL - Best Practices for navigating within code? -plus - Add-In's that help?

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Hi All - I have a question that I think MIGHT be of interest to a
number of us developers. I am somewhat new to VIsual Studio 2005 but
not new to VB. I am looking for ideas about quick and efficient
navigating within Visual Studio 2005. Let's say your project (or
solution) has dozens of forms and hundreds or even thousands of
routines.

Two Questions:

1) BUILT-IN to Visual Studio 2005. What ideas do you have to quickly
navigate? For example, bookmarks help. But what other ideas do you
have? How do you quickly get to some routine you haven't looked at in
a while and you're not totally sure what the name is? Is there some
easy way to see ALL the names of ALL the routines in a project (if
there is, I'm showing my ignorance here!) Here is what I know - to
start out with:
* Bookmarks are useful. Normally they disappear when you close your
files/project - but if you leave the files open and close the
SOLUTION, then bookmarks are saved.
* Ctrl-minus and Ctrl-Shift-minus takes you back and forward among
recently edited areas.
Anyone else have further ideas?

2) Any 3rd-party add-in's that might help?

Thanks, everyone!

Rex
 
Rex,

I know that the development team is consequently looking for improvements
direct related to your question.

The results of those are however sometimes not as we wish. It seems that
everybody has different ideas about that. Than you get things as now is the
help. It does for me not work anymore because the complexity and the amount
of keys and steps I have to remember as well have to take to get quick the
information that I need.

For me they can make it more simple instead of more complex by adding
keystrokes or whatever. Beside that there are pointing devices, let us
forget solutions from the first days of the PC.

Just my thought,

Cor
 
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