You are done ! Now from any open items in VS Studio if you press the shortcut key ( For me Ctrl + Shift + Q), corresponding item will be open in windows explorer. Once you have the key, Click on “ Assign” and OK. Here you may need to spend few time find out the unique shortcut key with some trial hit ( I have set as Ctrl + Shift + Q). Once you the command “ File.OpenContainingFolder” assign a shortcut key for the same. Now, if you know the command you can directly scroll down the command list or Type few of the characters in the search text. Navigate as VS IDE Menu > Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard. For “ Open Containing Folder” Command name is “ File.OpenContainingFolder”. Before assign to shortcut to any of the command you should know the name of the command too. This process is same for most the cases when you want to assign some key word shortcut for any of the Visual Studio Command. Add Shortcut For Open Containing Folder : Though we can do it from the default process ( without shortcut ) but this will really save some amounts of your time, and time is money 🙂. This will be really helpful for you to work with “Open Containing Folder”. But do you know we can assign keyboard shortcut for the same or even we can customize the context menu in code editor to achieve the same as shown in below images. This operation by default having no keyboard shortcut. This will open the selected item location in windows explorer. How did we do that ? Yes it’s very simple, Just right click on file from files Tab and select “ Open Containing Folder” from the context menu as shown in below. “ Open Containing Folder” is one of the frequent used functionality to open a particular file location in windows explore from Visual Studio IDE.

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