File Management

Overview

Visual Sidekick has a number of functions for managing the files Visual Sidekick processes.

Drag and Drop

By default, Visual Sidekick only adds Visual Studio solution files, Editor files and files defined the Visual Sidekick libraries.

At any time, any file or folder can be manually dragged from Explorer and dropped onto the Visual Sidekick toolwindow. These files are added to the current solution view, and inserted in a special folder called "Manually Added Files ".

If a file or collection of files is dropped onto the Visual Sidekick toolwindow, all those files will be added to the Visual Sidekick solution view.
If a folder is dropped onto the Visual Sidekick toolwindow, all source-code files from all recursed folders will be added to the Visual Sidekick solution view. Any file that does not have a recognised source-code extension will not be added.

Note, however, that these files are added to Visual Sidekick temporarily and are not persisted across Visual Studio solution open/close operations.

This feature is very useful for browsing code collections that are not packaged in a Visual Studio project. Launch a copy of Visual Studio with a blank solution, and then drag the raw source code files onto the Visual Sidekick toolwindow.

The File Menu

Below is an explanation of Visual Sidekick's VSK / File sub-menu:

Menu Option Description

Reparse All Solution Files Unconditionally Forces a reparse of all files in Solution. Use this to refresh the cached copies of the symbols if they get out of sync for some reason.

Reparse All Unmanaged Library Files Unconditionally Forces a reparse of all files in Unmanaged Library. Use this to refresh the cached copies of the symbols if they get out of sync for some reason.

Load Unmanaged Library Temporarily loads a Visual Sidekick library. The library will be unloaded when the solution is closed. If you want the library loaded permanently, see the Global Options and Solution Options dialogs.

Remove All Manually Added Files Removes all files that have been manually added by the user.

Menu Option	Description
Reparse All Solution Files Unconditionally	Forces a reparse of all files in Solution. Use this to refresh the cached copies of the symbols if they get out of sync for some reason.
Reparse All Unmanaged Library Files Unconditionally	Forces a reparse of all files in Unmanaged Library. Use this to refresh the cached copies of the symbols if they get out of sync for some reason.
Load Unmanaged Library	Temporarily loads a Visual Sidekick library. The library will be unloaded when the solution is closed. If you want the library loaded permanently, see the Global Options and Solution Options dialogs.
Remove All Manually Added Files	Removes all files that have been manually added by the user.