Visual Studio 2012 add-in that basically collapses everything when you open a file.
I found that I tend to press CTRL + M, CTRL + O (Collapse to Definitions) whenever I opened a .cs file, and CTRL + K, CTRL + O (Start Automatic Outling) whenever I opened a .cshtml file from the Solution Explorer.
In the past, I could have set up a macro to do this automatically, but this functionality has been removed in Visual Studio 2012; thus I build this add-in.
It basically runs the Edit -> Outlining -> Start Automatic Outling and Edit -> Outlining -> Collapse to Definitions commands whenever a file is opened. Note that it only does this when files are opened from Solution Explorer, since I did not want everything collapsed when, say, searching or debugging a file.
I threw this together for my own convenience. I do not plan to continue developing this further, unless I personally encounter a bug that irritates me enough to fix it. Use this at your own risk, and feel free to fork the repository.
I also have no idea if it will work on older versions of Visual Studio.
To install this add-in:
- Build the solution.
- Find the
AutoCollapse.AddInfile, and the builtAutoCollapse.dllfile. - Copy these two files to
[My Documents]\Visual Studio 2012\Addins. - Open (or restart) Visual Studio 2012.