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In Visual Studio 2005/2008, why doesn't the ">open xxxxx.cs" shortcut work with forms?

In Visual Studio, there is a handy IDE shortcut for directly jumping to a file, i.e.

CTRL-/ (to select the Find combo-box) Then type in ">open myclass.cs"

This is much quicker than navigating through the Solution explorer to open the specified class.

However, if you try and open the code part of a form (not the designer part) in this way then Visual Studio simply returns "The operation could not be completed".

...which means that I have to go through the Solution explorer to open them.

Is there any way to get this shortcut to work for forms, or is there some other shortcut?

Update: the problem seems to be with intellisense...

If I type ">open form1.cs" then this works...

But if I type ">open form" and then use the up and down keys to select from the intellisense, so that the combo reads ">open "Form1.cs (OpenShortcutTest)"" then that operation will fail.

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Why not just use F7 to view the code behind? Maybe I'm missing something?

[edit]I just tried it in VS 2008 and ">open form2.cs" works fine.[/edit]

John  2009-04-02 12:46:54
To use F7 you first have to highlight the file in the Solution Explorer, which is a lot slower than using the ">open" shortcut - for us at least where are solution is very large with multiple projects.Not sure why ">open" on forms works for you. Are your forms made of 3 parts? e.g. ...
RickL  2009-04-02 14:18:54
form2.cs, form2.Designer.cs and form2.resx? i.e. it was automatically generated by Visual Studio 2005/2008 and uses partial classes? I think that is something to do with the problem.
RickL  2009-04-02 14:19:46
(in the 1st comment I meant that "our" solution is very large... i.e. 50+ projects, and the forms are often nested inside folders... so to navigate through the GUI to a form will involve multiple clicks and scrolls).
RickL  2009-04-02 14:21:00
I just did a new windows forms project and added a few forms through Visual Studio and then did the shortcut you mentioned and it worked fine. The reason I mentioned f7 is because I thought you had the form open in design view and wanted to quickly get to the code behind.
John  2009-04-02 14:46:14
Have accepted your answer as it helped me realise the problem was with the intellisense.
RickL  2009-04-03 09:01:30

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