Visual Studio tip: finding open documents with the @doc provider using the Quick Launch tool

One of the little but nifty features in Visual Studio is the Quick Launch feature, but default activated by the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Q. This feature allows you to activate many different Visual Studio commands by name, instead of navigating the (sometimes) long menu paths.

The Quick Launch is useful in finding various Visual Studio IDE settings, menu commands and options, and quickly activating/executing them. But, the Quick Launch commands also supports category searches, activated by the @ (at) sign, after which you can type in the category name.

For instance, there's the category "@doc", which lets you search/open currently open files. To use it, type in "@doc" followed by a space and few letters from the name of the file you want to open. Say, you have 20 files open, and want to quickly go to a file called "Logging.cs". To get there, press Ctrl+Q, and type in "@doc lo", and then press Enter. If you have multiple files open matching with the search "lo", they are all listed.

Hope this helps!