Organizing or Color Coding Project & Folders in Visual Studio 2010

Question

I am looking for an extension to Visual Studio 2010 which would allow for better organization of the solution, projects, folders and files. I would really like to be able to color code specific project and folders. For example, my team is working on and ASP.Net webforms site and integrating ASP.Net MVC. I would love to be able to color code the MVC folders as that is where I do the majority of my work, or otherwise call them out and/or hide/grey-out other folders.

Another nice-to-have would be a set of bookmark icons or favorite files / folders. For example, in MVC land I often find myself working on a set of files at one time: a view, one or more partial views, a controller, model files, services, utility classes, and scripts. I might have 10 files associated with a particular "page" and it would be nice to be able to group this together into some sort of multi-tab favorite.

Are there any extension out there that do this, and if so what are your experiences with them?

Answer 1

I haven't seen anything out there that gives you exactly what you're looking for. However, if you're not familiar with the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools, you might want to check them out.

Among other features, they provide the ability to color-code the document tabs based on project and/or regular expressions (applied against the filename). Depending on how your model, view, and controller classes are named, you may be able to apply a set of regular expressions to the filenames to come up with a tab coloring scheme (this add-in won't help you with the solution explorer, however).

Just thought I'd point that out in case you're not aware of this set of tools.

Hope this helps.