Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.
#55 Navigate Bookmark folders in the Bookmark Window
Friday, February 20 2009
If you’re crazy about dropping bookmarks in your project, then you’ll love this ability to manage them. There's a Bookmark Tool Window (or Panel) that allows you to organize and arrange your bookmarks. You can create one or many folders with name, and then jump between bookmarks just in that folder. Once you've organized your bookmarks, you can use similar bookmark navigation keyboard shortcuts to navigate within the folder by adding the Shift button to the chord.
Snippets / Notes:
[CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[K], [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[P] to move to the previous bookmark in the folder.
[CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[K], [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[N] to move to the next bookmark in the folder.
Visual Studio Tip / Trick #055 English Transcription:
Today's Visual Studio Trick No. 55 was original blog post by Sara Ford in October 2007.
The trick deals with navigating bookmarks. As you can see we have two bookmarks here on the screen, which is pretty simple to do and pretty easy to navigate with because our example is so minimal. But if you have a lot of bookmarks scattered across your project, in the view menu under Other Windows, there is a Bookmark Toolbar or a panel rather, that can open up. And inside this panel, you can create folder. You can create as many folders as you want and then you can have Bookmarks within a folder. So now on the Toolbar, this also works the keyboard shortcuts, I'll show you in a moment, but this Bookmark toolbar will allow you to move your cursor to the previous bookmark in the current folder. So if you have bookmarks scattered around your project, but they are all related to a specific job that you are working on, you can create a folder and move back and forth within the folder. You can also move back and forth within the same document. And after you have these folders created, on the View Menu, oh sorry under the edit menu, under Bookmarks, you'll be able to see all your keyboard bindings which may vary depending on whether you are bound to C#, Visual Basic or another keyboard binding. So couple of things about the trick. First, there is a toolbar or panel for bookmarks. All of the toolbar icons are duplicate here, as they are up here in your document. If this is not visible, then obviously these work the same way. So as you can see my cursor jumping between those 2 items.
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